Quick Windows 7 question

DjchunKfunK · 14 Sep 2010 at 08:49

I currently have a 32 bit version of Vista and I am about to upgrade to Win 7 64 bit. Vista is installed on a partition with most of my other data on a separate partition. When I come to install Win 7 will I be able to save the data on the separate partition and install Win 7 to the other partition or will it just write over the whole drive?

dazza13 · 14 Sep 2010 at 11:21

It will only install on the partion you tell it to, so just specifiy your current vista partion as the install drive.

DjchunKfunK · 14 Sep 2010 at 13:09

Cool thanks.

theheyes · 14 Sep 2010 at 17:28

Just be aware that you're about 3 clicks away from losing your stuff if it's not backed up.

cokecan · 14 Sep 2010 at 17:54

if you do drop windows on the same drive as another OS then its no huge issue (assuming you don't format the partition first)

W7 has quite a nice feature where it will drop your old copy of windows in a folder on the C drive called windows.old and in there will be your old copy of windows, docs and settings etc and a few other bits. From there you can then run USMT (User State Migration Tool) and restore all your user profiles, documents and settings you had setup on your old install of windows in W7 so all your user accounts are back to how they were but in the new OS. It's called a hardlink migration if anyone wants to do some more googling. It can also be run before you install W7 to create a store of all your profiles, data and settings so you can migrate it to W7