I'm So Teed Off With My Windows 7 RC "Upgrade"

Did everything I should have done to enable a smooth upgrade from 7000 to 7100 but assume it's because I install from my C: XP partition (to preserve the disc lettering throughout my various boots) that it wouldn't upgrade and ended up giving me a "Windows.old" which I am not sure what to do with.

To piss me off even further I've forgotten the password to my Easy File Transfer so can't make that work.

So now I have to setup Win 7 from scratch all over #@%^&*!! again.

At setup I got the option to Upgrade or Custom. If I chose Upgrade it told me it couldn't upgrade XP, I know that already, I wasnh't trying to do that.

So I chose custom thinking it would give me an option to upgrade the existing N:Win 7 partition. Instead it threw everything into a windows.old and installed a fresh Win 7.

I'm so teed off I could throw my machine out of the window. But, as it's the only machine I have, I wont.

I'll just pour a really stiff drink and grit my teeth.

Thanks guys...I'm slowly simmering down here...LOL. I already found drivers I needed in windows.old. Pity I can't think of the password for Easy Transfer which I used just before I did all this. Crazy, I'm usually so particular about that sort of thing. I probably wrote it down and promptly threw it out.

That's what I usually do and it's the only thing I have absolutely no record of, would you believe.

On an up note, I'm downloading Vista SP2 as well, so all is not lost today.