Successful XP to W7 Upgrade, iMac

[ddyer]

I thought I'd pass this info on, as short as I can make it and maybe still help.

Installed Parallels version 6 from download
Installed June 2006 Windows XP Professional from CD, Student version
Went to ShopArhive web to download files. Cheaper here but more work as you get no disk.
Found I needed a good download program.
Used FlashGet from within XP and downloaded files from within Windows for Windows 7.
Took a chance and downloaded the 64-bit version.
Found out that these files must be put on DVD before can be used for upgrade of XP.
Apparently, Windows XP does not have a disk burner included (no surprise there).
Got free download of DeepBurner from within XP.
Was a little tricky to move the Windows 7 file image to Deep Burner, but it worked.
Now had a DVD with files on it.
For upgrade, must start XP from bootable upgrade disk.
Tried to restart XP with DVD a bunch of times, pressing any key, pressing delete, etc.
Could not catch the restarter correct. Searched internet.
Need to reset BIOS in XP to reboot from DVD. Could not get this to work.
Searched Parallels website for information. They had the method. From Parallels, inside Mac operating system
you can go to Virtual Machine:Configure:Hardware and move the DVD up to first priority for reboot.
Must do some of this while XP is running in background.
First wanted to make sure that DVD was really a bootable disk, took to another real PC and got it to boot.
Then back home, restarted my XP with DVD already in drive. The startup black screen with print came up,
and I could read where it said press any key to boot from DVD. Did that.
Started procedure and got Windows 7 to work.
Then had to change XP to Windows 7 in the Parallels application.
Final problem was to get Windows 7 to go to my wireless Apple Airport Extreme.
At first it would not get anything on internet. Tried variety of things to no avail.
Some web information said I could go to Windows 7 and change some settings, but the file mentioned did not exist in my Windows 7.
Back to Parallels web site to browse information. Found you can do this best within Parallels application (of course).
Go to Virtual Machine:Configure:Hardware (at top), select Network, and under Bridged Network select Airport.
You can do the same thing in the Parallels application by clicking on Device, and then select Bridged, select Device again and also select Airport.
So after 3 or 4 frustrating days it was all done (I hope).
It does slow my iMac way down, so use the command to suspend it when not absolutely necessary.
Hate Windows (but must use it for a couple of things).

 

[Toms12]

Computer hardware troubleshooting-
Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer and it is frequently changed as compared to the software. Most computer hardware is inside the computer and cannot be seen by normal users. There are a large number of the computer hardware devices including Hard disk, CD-Rom, RAM, Motherboard, Monitor, printer, peripheral devices and other devices. Errors that occur before the initial beep shows that there is some kind of hardware problem exists in the system. At the POST stage, only the BIOS of the system and basic hardware is active and operating system does not starts to initialize at this stage until a final beep occurs.
You can categorize the system configurations errors and components failure errors. Sometimes configurations or setup problems occur when a new hardware is installed and used in the system for the first time. These problems occur due to the mismatches of the CMOS memory information and component's configuration information. It is usually advisable to access the system CMOS when the system is first time prepared, when it is necessary to replace the CMOS battery and when a new device such as hard disk.
If you face the configuration errors, you should see the installation manual that comes with the new computer device. If you cannot confirm configuration problems and the device is not working properly, this means that there must be some defect in the hardware.

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