Windows 7 BSOD after HDD move.

Sorry, I help more than a dozen people with serious problems here most days and got your original problem from four pages back confused with another's.

The statement stands though that no one could assure you with certainty your files would be in windows.old if you reinstalled your OS over them.

RolandHazoto said:

not a new partition, just a reinstall on the old partition... I simply wasn't sure if it would store my documents. If someone would have said it, this would have been done 2 days ago...

Since you weren't able to install to another partition as chev65 and I urged, I then suggested you use your boot disk to write them to DVD or external first because windows.old isn't always created.

I'm glad it turned out alright for you.

RolandHazoto said:

. . .I appreciate your attempts at help but perhaps next time you should pay closer attention to the post-ers needs. . .

I was not personally involved in this thread, but feel a need to comment anyway.

I am of course very glad that all of this worked out in your favor and that you ended things amicably in your last post, giving thanks and praise to those that gave up their free time to respond. As a self-professed Mod yourself, you are aware that all here are volunteers.

From your posts you seem to be one that is up for any challenge; enthusiastic, adventurous, an "out of the box" thinker and one willing to take risks in pursuit of a solution. I would imagine that you have been or will go to every corner of your system to learn it inside-out. Your own words describe such -

". . .I always urge people "Don't be afraid to play with your computer, almost anything can be fixed. . ."

I agree with you 100%.

However, being in systems for 9 years, you know that OS installation can always go awry and the backing up of important files is a necessity. Pages like THIS from Microsoft have been around for many years and urges one to perform a backup before OS upgrade or installation.

You say Windows 7 "is a new beast" to you. So when those upgrade discs came in, I would think that you would have known the difference between a "custom" and a "clean" installation, possibly from the Installing Windows 7 FAQ site.

You were in fact told 3 days ago about Windows.old - which exhibits the same behavior in Windows 7 as in your prior OS, Vista.

Jonathan_King said:

Your files will be backed up to a folder called Windows.old, and placed in C:.

gregrocker said:

There is no way anyone could assure OP that his files would be in a windows.old folder . .

RolandHazoto said:

So I just need to know for certain that I will not lose my documents?

At 24, you should know that there are NO guarantees in life, especially in systems and gregrocker so informed you. I agree.

RolandHazoto said:

. . .I appreciate your attempts at help but perhaps next time you should pay closer attention to the post-ers needs rather than just making random suggestions. You guys remind me of the computer repair guys from my home town. They would always come up with these convoluted and long methods to doing something simple. . .

. . . but if people would have paid attention to my posts and answered my questions when I asked them we all could have saved a few people a few headaches. . . .
. . .
So I guess what is to be learned from this . . . look at the problem for what it is, pay attention to the information given, and if you can't answer a question, don't go making random suggestions as you could make the situation worse. . .

. . .But thank you for the attempts anyway.
Jack Sparrow and Jonathan King, you guys were very helpful and I appreciate it. Greg, you were at a good start...

It is the bits and pieces that each of us takes from another's advice that cause the bits and pieces in our own mind to come together. Everyone troubleshoots differently and no one way is the correct way. In my book there is no such thing as a "random suggestion...that could make a situation worse.." - especially not at a prestigious forum like this. The old adage "Just throwing out an idea" is what got us to the moon in 1969 when MIT and NASA had just 64k to work with for the entire spaceshot. (64k is what I recall; I was in grammar school then).

RolandHazoto said:

Well I suppose we have all learned quite a bit from this, and for future reference anytime I have ever had to reinstall windows (goin back to 98) if you put something in the root of the hard disc, as long as you do not format, it is safe, hence me moving my documents to the root before the reinstall, even though in the end I did not need to... So if anyone is ever concerned about windows.old not being created properly or at all, you can move files to the root as long as you do not format or delete the partition.
Thanks again for everyone's support and if you guys ever need anything hit me up! I've been doin PC repair since I was 15 (goin on 9 years now) so I am quite familiar with a lot, 7 was just a new beast that needed to be learned from

Again, I am surprised that with your experience and having Vista for the last 14 months you did not know this. But to say "it is safe" is not accurate whatsoever.

Wait until you are re-installing Windows 7 someday and find a non-OS partition locked and don't know the reason for such; or after a re-install find that you wiped out a partition containing data rather than the OS drive because the driver letters somehow changed. Trying to figure out such things alone without others throwing ideas at you have lead to downfalls for some.

You are young, very bright and I believe have a good career ahead of you. But I would suggest to you that you keep this entire thread as a reminder that you should never belittle anyone on what it is that YOU think they know or do not know and its relation to your thought process. Doing so will instantly damage your rapport with co-workers and result in the losing of a suggestion in the future that just may hold the answer you are seeking.

You were damn fortunate to have had the opinions/ suggestions of the many experts that replied in this thread as you yourself said that it aided in your finding a solution. I am glad to see that you thanked all for their interest and posts.

My apologies to you if taken personally; not my intent at all. I have seen many similar threads in recent years and have written similar replies. It really is not my place to write this here at SevenForums as I am simply a member, just as you are.

Have a nice weekend. I wish you the best of luck with Windows 7 - and your future.

Regards. . .

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