[Dxbase] Upgrade to Windows 7 Question

[Wes N7WS]

Dick,

That's more or less the approach I took.

The shack computer is a Lenovo laptop (bought specifically because at the time 
it was the only thing still offered with XP). I do QSLing, awards tracking, etc. 
on a Dell desktop that was running Vista.

I put a second hard drive in the desktop and installed Win 7 on it.  This 
belt-and-suspenders approach left everything intact in the old drive.  Being a 
glutton for punishment, I shortly thereafter took the advice of my IT manager 
son and put in a SSD and did the whole exercise again :-)  I then used the 
original drive in the second slot for data (since replaced with a larger 
capacity drive)

After this success I did the same thing with the shack laptop, albeit with a 
smaller capacity SSD.  For data storage I got a carrier that holds a hard drive 
and plugged it into the optical drive slot.

Wes


On 12/14/2013 4:10 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> One problem with that is the tendency of Windows 7 to want files in a
> different
> place than XP (DXBase for example). All I could use PCM for would be moving
> data files. I would still have to do a fresh install of all the App's.
>
> My thinking is to build up another system (like the one I am using now) and
> do
> a parallel install so I can be sure they all work.
>
> A royal PITA, but with XP support ending soon, I foresee an avalanche of
> virus
> attacks that will not be countered.
>
> Thanks for the assistance,
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>