I helped Uli upgrade her Dell Latitude D800 laptop to Windows 7 Ultimate. I created a bootable USB flash drive, and had no problem installing other than having to remove the flash drive after the installer rebooted the machine. (If the machine reboots from the flash drive instead of the internal hard drive, it will keep repeating the install from the beginning.) Once the install was done, we noticed 4 problems:
1. Wireless adapter not recognized.
2. Graphics adapter not recognized. (Standard VGA used.)
3. Audio hardware not recognized.
4. Cardbus adapter not recognized.
We were able to download the Vista wireless driver on my Mac, put it on a USB stick, and install it on Uli's machine. That got her machine on the internet. The rest of the drivers were found and XP and/or Vista versions were used when the Win7 version could not be found. All is up and running smoothly on her 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HD machine.
Today I learned you can teach an old dog new tricks, but you should have all the old dog's drivers on a USB stick first.
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