vista upgrade caution

I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed on the C:\ I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all! What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users. When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
Chris

Well, your results would make a good report, suggest you send in the feedback: For Feedback: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
Feedback reporting tool: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655 -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta

"Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message

I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed on the C:\ I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all! What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users. When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
Chris

I thought that it copies your profile (contents of c:\documents and settings) to an temp directory then copies it to c:\users. I say thought because I'm running a fresh install after trying to upgrade and ran into permission problems and can't check but I think i remember seeing my profiles in another location other than c:\users when I was trouble shooting.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Well, your results would make a good report, suggest you send in the feedback: For Feedback: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
Feedback reporting tool: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655 -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta

"Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed on the C:\ I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all! What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users. When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
Chris

Wyatt, I noticed some persons discussing about being unable to access their document and settings folder after upgrading. So, I suspect it creates a replica of the folder in the Users folder after an upgrade. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"wyatt" wrote in message

I thought that it copies your profile (contents of c:\documents and settings) to an temp directory then copies it to c:\users. I say thought because I'm running a fresh install after trying to upgrade and ran into permission problems and can't check but I think i remember seeing my profiles in another location other than c:\users when I was trouble shooting.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Well, your results would make a good report, suggest you send in the feedback: For Feedback: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=55160
Feedback reporting tool: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43655 -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta

"Chris H" <chris dot haaker at gmail dot com> wrote in message I usually never do an upgrade with a beta but since I have had such poor luck getting a VPN client to work I thought I would try an upgrade. I didnt bother backing up my profile resident data (favorites, my docs, etc) as I have my profile (documents and settings) on the d:\ and the OS is installed on the C:\ I upgraded to Vista and it performed as poorly as I thought it would (Dell latitude D610). I re-ghosted down my C:\ volume and figured I would be right back where I started. Oh-no, not at all! What *seems* to have happened is that during the upgrade, Vista MOVED, NOT COPIED everything from my profile to its new profile location on C:\Users. When I re-imaged my C:\ of course I blew all that away. Ugh .... I am now working through a bunch of undelete programs. What's everyones favorite?
Chris