Moving from Win7 Pro to Win7 Enterprise

Hello everyone,

I have a question for anyone that can help me out. At my office I am trying to move several machines from Windows 7 Pro to windows 7 Enterprise. I know that there is no direct route from Professional to Enterprise, so I am out of luck when it comes to keeping all of my OEM applications and drivers from Dell on the machines I have. I end up having to do a clean install of Enterprise and lose all of the OEM software/drivers. Unfortunately the dell driver site has really been hit and (quite a bit) miss when it comes to getting everything back the way it should be. Does anyone know of a way for me to grab everything that was installed on the machine from Dell then do my Enterprise install and put it all back?

Thanks in advance.

May I ask why you have to go from Pro to Enterprise ?

theog said:

How to order Microsoft official Dell OEM manufacturer's Recovery Disks from the website.
May be up to 5 DVD's
DVD 1) Windows 7 DVD.
DVD 2 to 5) Drivers & Utlilties.

Ive tried getting Dells assistance with that before, they just direct me back to their drivers and downloads page. When I get all of the recommended downloads form their site 17/29 of them will actually work on the device I'm working with. Using the disks, when they send them, yields pretty much the same result; some work, some "Aren't for this device." or "Such device is not installed."

AddRAM said:

May I ask why you have to go from Pro to Enterprise ?

I'd like to use Enterprise for it's Encryption abilities, I build mobile user systems for administration in health care. I know that Ultimate is in the upgrade path for windows, however my offices agreement with Microsoft doesn't allow usage of Ultimate.

I'm really curious if Dell just has a specific location(s) that I can grab their stuff from, copy it to a USB and drop it back onto the system once I've installed Enterprise.