Windows 7 Upgrade on my ThinkPad T60
This afternoon I was able to successfully upgrade my Lenovo ThinkPad T60 to Windows 7 Beta (build 7000).
The upgrade took forever (about 2 hours). This was contrary to my experience installing a clean copy of Windows 7 on a virtual machine.
My ThinkPad T60 is my production laptop. I use it about 30% of the time during any given week – mostly at when I am away from the office.
So far, all of my applications that I had installed previously are working. All of the drivers I had installed previously are also working (no red X’s in device manager).
I decided to do an in-place upgrade to save me the trouble of downloading and installing drivers. I may try a clean install in the coming weeks if I feel that my system is acting up because of the upgrade.
For the record – I never recommend doing an in place upgrade of an OS – clean installs are the way to go. But I am making an exception here simply because things like driver compatibility with a beta is sketchy at best. If there were published Windows 7 drivers – I would have gone directly to a clean install.
As I have more time to play with this I’ll keep you updated.
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You didn’t mention what the OS was that you were upgrading from. Was it Vista upgrade to 7 or XP Upgrade to 7?
Sorry about that – The upgrade I did was from Vista Business x32 Edition. I might also mention that this post is over a year old and at the time, I was working with Windows 7 Beta (1). Since that time (actually within the last week or so) I have done a completely fresh install of Windows 7 Business on the same laptop (to a clean HDD) and the install worked great. the install process installed all of the correct drivers for me. The only driver I have installed is the driver for the UltraNav – and that was so I could disable the touchpad.
I hope this was helpful. If you have any other questions – let me know. I’m glad to help.
Where did you get all the driver form?
Most of the drivers were auto detected. A few like thhe fingerprint reader I downloaded from the lenovo support site.