Acer Aspire 5610 Vista laptop to Win 7 - possible?

[caprock]

My Acer Aspire 5610-4648 is not listed in the Acer site's compatability list for an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. The Acer support says that a change of operating system for this model is not supported. The Microsoft Win 7 upgrade advisor has no objections.

After reading all available posts that I could find, I did not find any posts of success, yet the difference in technology should not be that great. The areas of concern to me are for the Acer-supplied applications such as the Enpowering Technology, and especially the wireless manager.

Has anyone had success with this upgrade and are willing to share their experience?

Thanks!

 

[wds7]

Sony said mine CAN NOT run Wds7 at all .... but I did a clean install anyway and it works perfectly fine ..
I also used all vista drivers "32bit" for new windows .. So i think you are fine.
Look at my specs ....

 

[Gentrit]

it works but it not include all settings of win 7

 

[caprock]

Thanks wds7

Gentrit - sorry, but I do not understand.

Can you please give me a hint as to what settings are not supported?

 

[FerchogtX]

I guess he is reffering to the software that is included on the OEM installs of Acer PC's... nothing to worry about, if you are running Vista, 7 will fly.

See ya!!

 

[Lordbob75]

A clean install will work on pretty much any system than can run Vista.

~Lordbob

 

[wysiwyg]

I just got an Acer 5680, and it accepted a clean install of Win7.

You lose any Acer technology applications as it formats the hard drive.

 

[caprock]

Thanks all!
The upgrade is to W7 Home Premium using the standard Microsoft dvd and not an Acer-supplied.

Sounds like time to bite the bullet - will post results for others.

 

[Petey7]

According to Dell my computer can't support Windows 7 or any 64 bit OS, yet the new version of this computer, which has almost the exact same hardware does. So I made sure my CPU was 64 bit capable and installed it. I had a rough time finding all the right drivers, but everything works like a dream.

 

[Jake90087]

to be honest, any comp can run windows 7 juat it may not be supported by the manufacturer and some drivers may not be available but vista uses the same driver model as 7 so there'd be no reason not to upgrade, and good luck caprock!

 

[FerchogtX]

Just something more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DONT EVER FORGET to make a backup of the preinstalled acer software before yu do the clean install of W7, generally is located in a folder called OEM in the root drive... with that, you can reinstall any acer software if you need it (I don't think so, but is always good to do that)

 

[caprock]

THANKS for the advise!

After 12+ hours doing image backups, I tried an upgrade this morning - Failed at the very end & rolled back to Vista. Seems I didn't pay enough attention to some issues that were clearly stated by MS advisor.

 

[theog]

Always best to do a clean install.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

 

[FerchogtX]

Always best to do a clean install.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

+1... Backup nad clean install is the best for this.