- Jan 26, 2010
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...Looking to upgrade the memory in my graphics workstation from 12GB to 24GB. The one "rub" is I need to also update my Win7 from Home Premium to Pro as Premium only supports up to 16GB. Microsoft has pretty much stopped selling Win7 in any form so the online "Anytime Upgrade" path is rather useless, unless I am willing to pay nearly 400$ at Amazon for an "Anytime Upgrade" version (ridiculous when the original OEM cost me around 100$ and a full Win7 Pro OEM sells for about 130$ - 140$).
This seems to leave the only option being a full clean install of the complete Win7 Pro OS which is a huge bother as I would have to back everything up and then wipe the system. Not a small undertaking considering the apps and files I currently have on the system.
I am currently running two HDDs a 250GB boot/application drive and a 1TB "Library/Runtime" drive. Considering that the larger drive only contains files and no application installs would I only need to backup and wipe the smaller Boot drive for the install or both? If that were the case, it would make the job a bit less "painful" as I have all the application installers already backed up.
Though less expensive, not interested in 8.1 as I really don't care for all the tweaking it requires to get it to look and run more like 7 (I also do use the start menu quite frequently) and the upgrade routine from 7 is rather lame as you pretty much need to do a lot of the the same tasks as if you performed a full clean install.
This seems to leave the only option being a full clean install of the complete Win7 Pro OS which is a huge bother as I would have to back everything up and then wipe the system. Not a small undertaking considering the apps and files I currently have on the system.
I am currently running two HDDs a 250GB boot/application drive and a 1TB "Library/Runtime" drive. Considering that the larger drive only contains files and no application installs would I only need to backup and wipe the smaller Boot drive for the install or both? If that were the case, it would make the job a bit less "painful" as I have all the application installers already backed up.
Though less expensive, not interested in 8.1 as I really don't care for all the tweaking it requires to get it to look and run more like 7 (I also do use the start menu quite frequently) and the upgrade routine from 7 is rather lame as you pretty much need to do a lot of the the same tasks as if you performed a full clean install.
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