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Yes.
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Sorry to keep on but do you do a disk or system backup ?
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Disk - it saves everything to an image file, and you can restore the image, or mount it it as a virtual drive to get at the bits you want if you need to instead.
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Ok thanks - one final question ? does AMOEI work ok with SSD's ?
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Oh yes!
And they do a Partition Assistant which upgrades an HDD to an SSD as well - I used it for mine, and it's excellent!
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Brilliant thanks only I read some stuff where peeps had some problems with SSD's which was probably operator trouble
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I did an 8.1 to 10 update in place, and a 7 to 10 via an iso image. Although, in the latter case I did an update rather than re-install. In both cases, both PCs worked fine after the upgrades; just a bit of tweaking necessary for cosmetic reasons.
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Thanks Richard, I'm backing up using AMOEI and keeping several copies of the image in different places - also making physical copies of all my data to my server ( and you guessed it I'm backing up my server ) will post back soon
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The Entitled Employee[^]
Remind you of QA, anyone?
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Not even QA - I have that a lot closer to my desk 
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So did I
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wouldn't it be hilarious if the two of you were referring to each other. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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.. or if we are seated either side of you 
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If I upgrade from Win 7 to 10 will I need to reinstall all my software ( VS,SSMS et al ) ?
I'm thinking I can't avoid the shift forever so I'm going to bite the bullet this weekend.
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No - a clean install is often preferred but I upgraded one laptop and everything seems to have worked (the printer needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled but minor stuff).
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I'm seeing an upgrade now in Windows update so how can I do a clean install ?
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Download ISO and burn to CD then run install from there - it gives you a "new install" option.
(Obviously back up all the stuff you need before that  )
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I went from 8.1 to 10 and didn't have to reinstall a thing. But all my settings were set to default and the first windows 10 update(the big one) deleted CCleaner without my knowledge.
At my job I went from 7 to 10 and have so far noticed nothing missing or wrong. VS and SSMS work just fine.
But beware, that may not apply to your machine. I consider myself extremely lucky as I lost nothing with migrating to win 10. Every device had a successful upgrade - two computers and a cell phone.
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Thank you I'm starting to feel slightly optimistic ( which is always a worry )
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A word of warning, though ... Last december I took this risk with my perfect fast Windows 7 x64 4 GB RAM HP Elite desktop PC (my "work" computer) and I updated to Windows 10 and ... I was annoyed with 2 things
- "circling dots" at login after entering my credentials - it was taking forever
- Windows Explorer became unstable en crashed randomly 5 times per hour
So the computer was working in some way but not really ... Needless to say, I lost really days of office hours googling and searching for solutions ... do this, try that etc ... which is quite depressing when you have urgent work to do. Finally my management decided to buy a new computer ... But perhaps I am lucky because I did not loose any data so far from may 1 TB hard drive ...
Perhaps you can avoid such a mess with "clean install" if possible - a sensible advice found by googling ..
modified 6-May-16 4:55am.
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I originally ungraded from Win7 to Win10 and it worked - all my apps, settings, data, etc. were all there and working.
But...it wasn't too stable, and a couple of Win10 updates broke it.
Since I did a reformat and clean install, then re-installed my apps I've had no such problems.
I'd strongly recommend a full image backup (AOMEI is good), then a format and clean install from the ISO you can download from MS. Then another full image backup, then install your apps, then another full image. (I like backups )
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Cheers Griff I can see this weekend is already mapped out  I use AOMEI on your recommendation from some time ago, for a freebie its excellent and with the price of USB drives its a no brainer, I've never actually had to restore an image created with AOMEI so am a bit concerned, if I ended up ( worse case ) with an unbootable system - how would I restore an image ? ( thread drift already ).
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Run up AOMEI, and click on "Utilities".
Click on "Create Bootable Media". Select "Windows PE", and press "Next".
At the "Select Bootable Media" page, you can pick CD/DVD/USB media and off it goes!
When you want to restore, boot from the PE disk and it is pretty easy (I stuck a "spare" HDD in instead of my "proper" one and did a test restore when I first tried AOMEI to make sure it worked!)
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