Solved windows 7 professional to enterprise, would I lost my files?

[MertTheGreat]

Hi,

I am using windows 7 64 bit professional. I want to upgrade it to enterprise. during the upgrade would I lost my files?

Thanks

 

[Imperfect1]

Hi Mert, welcome to the forum.

Truthfully, I don't know the answer, but an educated guess would be that yes, you probably could lose some of your personal files, as well as possibly losing your Favorites. (You might also lose some of your customizations and settings.)

Whether or not this is correct though, is not the reason that I posted. It was more to advise you to back up all of your personal files and Favorites on an external device, so that if any file should be lost or corrupted or not transferred properly, you will have a true copy of it.

And you might also want to set a Restore Point just before you initiate the installation, just in case there are any problems.

 

[theog]

Have a word with your Company IT Administrator.

 

[MertTheGreat]

Hi Mert, welcome to the forum.

Truthfully, I don't know the answer, but an educated guess would be that yes, you probably could lose some of your personal files, as well as possibly losing your Favorites. (You might also lose some of your customizations and settings.)

Whether or not this is correct though, is not the reason that I posted. It was more to advise you to back up all of your personal files and Favorites on an external device, so that if any file should be lost or corrupted or not transferred properly, you will have a true copy of it.

And you might also want to set a Restore Point just before you initiate the installation, just in case there are any problems.

Yes I guess I have to, I just don't want to do it because of my laziness. Thanks

Have a word with your Company IT Administrator.

What a great idea how come I didn't think about that.

Just kidding. No offence

BTW I am unemployed so...

Thanks

 

[Bill2]

If you're unemployed, whats the source of that enterprise copy?

 

[MertTheGreat]

If you're unemployed, whats the source of that enterprise copy?

someone I know form microsoft gave me a code...

 

[karlsnooks]

Makes two criminals.

Get a legal version of Win 7 and we will be more than glad to help.

since your "company" doesn't have a software assurane contract with Microsoft, then no assistance.

 

[whs]

If you want to take your chances, you can expect your files in windows.old. But that does not always work as expected. It is a lot safer to backup your own files before you upgrade.

I am not going to comment on the neccessity to upgrade in your case and the legalities of the product key.

 

[Layback Bear]

karlsnooks good call.

 

[seavixen32]

The Enterprise edition isn't available through retail channels and in any case what would you as an individual want to do with it that you can't do with Windows 7 Professional?

Windows 7 Enterprise | The most advanced business operating system for PCs

Like Karlsnooks, I smell a scam here and suggest you buy a legitimate product key, and then we'll be more than happy to assist you.

In any event, if you don't want to lose any data, the Windows Anytime Upgrade is the way to go. Buy a product key, click Windows Anytime Upgrade, insert the product key you just bought and you'll have a fully-upgraded system within 30 minutes or so, with no loss of data.

 

[Dwarf]

There is no difference between the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of W7, apart from the licensing terms and method of activation. For the individual, like you, the sensible option is Ultimate. The Enterprise version is designed for businesses, and indeed is only distributed only to large customers who buy volume licenses.

However, the question remains: Why do you want to upgrade? The only additional features over Professional are some advanced networking features, Bitlocker encryption and support for multiple languages.

 

[spawn777]

Please will folks on this forum just answer the questions and stop interrogating people as to their licensing crap and why they want to do this. These people are proxying for many others that don't want to hit your forum with the same questions over and over, but simply read the answer. Help us.

 

[theog]

Please will folks on this forum just answer the questions and stop interrogating people as to their licensing crap and why they want to do this. These people are proxying for many others that don't want to hit your forum with the same questions over and over, but simply read the answer. Help us.

The simply answer is in post 11.

 

[seavixen32]

Please will folks on this forum just answer the questions and stop interrogating people as to their licensing crap and why they want to do this. These people are proxying for many others that don't want to hit your forum with the same questions over and over, but simply read the answer. Help us.

I fail to see the need for your anger, but the people trying to help are all unpaid volunteers and one of the rules of WSF is that we do not and cannot discuss methods of obtaining software that are not legal.

When someone is asked where they got their software from and are told "it was a code Microsoft gave me" they smell a rat.

If you don't like how we conduct our forum, don't post - it's as simple as that, but I for one am getting rather tired of the tedious pops at our voluntary helpers.