Question about Windows.Old and uninstalling 7

[Tarks]

When the install failed on a laptop it told me so and rolled back the changes, leaving me with it in the exact state it was before I stated installing seven, programs and all.

Is there any way to trigger this to occur? I'm sure there will be as it was such a useful feature in the installation process.

 

[Brink]

Hello Tarks,

You may be able to using this link from Microsoft if you still have the C:\Windows.old folder, but I would recommend that you backup anything that you do not want to lose first to be safe.

How to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you install Windows Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Night Hawk]

The roll back option is the "roll back setup" option available before any actual and final changes are made only seen when first running the installer.

For most running a laptop the option of first shrinking down the XP primary to make room for a second new one created for 7 to go on would see a dual boot where you can simply nuke the 7 primary later leaving XP intact. You would want at least 25-30gb of drive space available for that maybe more depending on how many programs you end up installing.