• Will W7 keeps data after upgrade?
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As the title says. I want to get the W7 Premium upgrade from newegg for an early birthday present/christmas present,and I reformatted in June. Will it mess up your OS,forcing you to reformat at one point?
Upgrades can be iffy, it's better to do a clean install (reformat).
It keeps your perosnal data yes, but Windows upgrades aren't the safest thing about. It is better to clean install like the above says.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;16102237]Upgrades can be iffy, it's better to do a clean install (reformat).[/QUOTE] Do you mean reformat then install the upgrade?
[QUOTE=alto0;16105975]Do you mean reformat then install the upgrade?[/QUOTE] If you reformat you can't upgrade :downs:
[QUOTE=alto0;16105975]Do you mean reformat then install the upgrade?[/QUOTE] You have two choices when installing 7, Upgrade (which you have to do from within your current Windows) and clean install (might be called "Custom Installation", you have to boot into the DVD to do this). Clean install reformats and installs 7, upgrade installs 7 over top of your current Windows.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;16108204]You have two choices when installing 7, Upgrade (which you have to do from within your current Windows) and clean install (might be called "Custom Installation", you have to boot into the DVD to do this). Clean install reformats and installs 7, upgrade installs 7 over top of your current Windows.[/QUOTE] so if you do a upgrade install will it keep all the programs as well?
Yeah but from what I know from experience, it rapes the registry.
Better off reformating
Quick question about upgrading. I want to format and upgrade to 64-bit, as I currently am using 32 bit. If I format first, the upgrade disk won't see the old OS and won't be considered an upgrade. But then there is no upgrade path from x86 to x64... Would there be a formatting utility included in the upgrade disk? That way I can just get mah $99 Professional upgrade disk.
If you want to keep your data and stuff then just copy them onto an external hard drive or somewhere where it won't get deleted. After your clean install just copy the stuff back over.
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