upgrading to windows 7, will it wipe my installation partition of vista?

JamesUK · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:38

Hi, i am pondering around the idea of upgrading to windows 7, i currently have a acer 7720g laptop, which has a intel core 2 duo cpu @ 2ghz, 4 gb ram etc.. the laptop has a vista instalation on the partition somewhere so if i want to reinstall vista theres a command i press, cant think of it now, and it lets me wipe the laptop and reinstall vista from the partition, my question is, if i install a fresh cope of windows 7 will it wipe this partition so i am unable to put vista back on if i ever wanted / needed to?

thanks

james

the1gooner · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:45

If there is a hidden recovery partition on your laptop it won't be affected by you installing a new os to the 'C' drive.

You can always restore your laptop to it's original installation as long as you don't delete that partition.

Recovery partitions are normally hidden but can be seen using disk management.

JamesUK · 22 Oct 2009 at 18:54

thank you for your quick response

JamesUK · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:17

Hi, i am getting win 7 tonight, im still a little concerned about losing my d2d partition, will it only effect me if i do a clean install, may this delete my d2d recovery partition, will upgrading not effect this at all rather than clean installs, its the upgrade verson i am getting, but im led to beleive you can choose to do a clean install and a upgrade install.

does anyone whos seen the windows 7 setup know if a drive management screen shows at all showing the d2d recovery and ask if you want to keep / delete it?

james