Upgrade Install with Windows 7

Brink said:

Agreed. That's about all you can do at that point.

It was apparently the HP recovery set of disks

Hey Brink (or other thread responder)

Do you know if doing an in place upgrade from vista to 7 will install a brand new set of drivers and remove all the old driver files. My reason for asking:

I have a system running vista, formerly with an AMD CPU and an nVidia GPU, but has had a replacement motherboard, and now uses an AMD APU and new RAM. There are as expected a few issues as a result of this, especially where drivers are concerned. A creative sound card has also been added, which is still intermittent even though I have now disabled the onboard realtek sound and removed the realtek drivers (although jack detection is working on this card).

Basically this vista system is a driver mess, I have removed the nvidia drivers (which were not removed before installing catalyst) and there are graphics and sound issues. I suspect I may need to perform a clean install (my recommendation) of 7, however the system owner would prefer an upgrade installation, brining me back to the question asked above.

Hello Ryan, :)

Usually during an upgrade install, all incompatible drivers are removed during the process and the generic drivers that come with Windows 7 will be installed until you update or install new versions.

Yeah, it does sound like a clean install would be best, but hopefully the upgrade will iron it out.

I'm glad it could help xldeane. :)