Alienware,Windows 10, Installation

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AS above laptop is alienware with win7 all running sweet i was rather reluctant to install windows 10 so i stole a 2.5" drive out of my wifes old laptop and used this for testing.
Took my ssd out of laptop and threw this drive in, installed win7 then installed windows 10 from a usb stick with iso from a thread on this site roughly 40 minutes later it was all installed and running fine, drivers were downloaded via windows and i was pleased my graphic card was detected and correctly installed drivers for it. Only thing i have not got running yet is the alienware function keys because i have not installed any dell stuff yet.

Anyway my question is this :- I have certain stuff on my ssd drive that i really do not want to have to reinstall so if i do the windows 10 install on my drive will my existing game,files etc be preserved or will i loose everything during the installation process of windows 10?
 
if you are doing a upgrade from W7 to W10 you should not loose anything.

I went from W7 to W10 upgrade and didn't loose anything but then done a clean install after of W10
 
Mmmm so i wonder how clean of an install the upgrade will be? any reason why you done an upgrade then a clean install?
 
FredFlint said:
I let windows upgrade itself and my m18x works fine including the Alienware software.
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Cool, however in my case dell have stated that the m17x r3 2011 machines will not be fully supported, on my test disk i have ran into problems already with my killer network card and also excel. I also find the whole experience slower and not as smooth so i guess i will wait a couple of months to allow for glitches etc to be ironed out.
 
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