XP to Win7: Extra drive ?


  1. Pradical
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    XP to Win7: Extra drive ?


    Hello all. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Win7 Professional fairly soon. I know that it performs a clean install and that I need to back up my C drive.

    My question is in regards to my secondary hardrive. Will the clean install also wipe the second hardrive or will it leave it untouched? Basically, can I back up my C drive onto the secondary drive without fear of losing it all?

    I would assume it would leave the second drive alone but I couldn't find any info and thus, why I am here asking. Thanks for any help!!!
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  3. Dark Nova Gamer
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    Pradical said:
    Hello all. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Win7 Professional fairly soon. I know that it performs a clean install and that I need to back up my C drive.

    My question is in regards to my secondary hardrive. Will the clean install also wipe the second hardrive or will it leave it untouched? Basically, can I back up my C drive onto the secondary drive without fear of losing it all?

    I would assume it would leave the second drive alone but I couldn't find any info and thus, why I am here asking. Thanks for any help!!!
    As far as I know it only wipes out what you tell it too (in this case, the partition Windows XP is installed on).

    I usually just make a new partition on my laptop hard drive, called Back-Up, and save a back-up there before reinstalling.
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  4. huffman
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    For what it is worth, for a clean install, disconnect the power lead to the second drive. I always did this even with XP reason being that sometimes for some unknown reason the clean install would not be on the partition I designated. By disconneting the power from the second drive, eliminated the problem.
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  6. Nikkeli
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    I got 3 hard drives, 2 being in raid0 and 1 is nonraid.
    I wanted to install xp on my 3rd drive that is not on raid (turned raid off from bios first), so i went on and booted from cd, chose my 3rd drive and pressed enter.
    It said it's unknown file system even though it was ntfs... so I went like hmm well what the hell, and pressed ok to format it.

    I found out the install tried to format my raid disk, which didnt work for some reason, so i unplugged the raid drives for it to work.

    My point is, never trust windows xp install :P
    Unplug other drives.
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  7. Pradical
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    Awesome, thanks guys!

    I will indeed disconnect the second drive. No use risking the lose of my backup when I don't have to :)
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