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Installing W7 Retail
Hi guys, I just bought the W7 retail version through my university bookstore and have a quick question before I install.
My laptop came with Vista installed and I partitioned it several months ago to install the RC (64 bit) on the 2nd partition and it worked fine. Now I want to install the retail version over my Vista partition since it has way more hard drive allocated to it than the parition I used to install the RC on. Do I have anything to worry about since this was the original OS that came on my system? I plan to upgrade Vista to W7 as opposed to the clean install which I did for the RC. Do I need to back my files up for this? Because my external broke and I don't want to go buy a new one if I don't have to. Will all of my files and programs remain in tact after upgrading the Vista partition to W7? I didn't have any troubles when the RC installed so I just wanted to make sure its safe to assume this will work just as well and that I shouldn't have to worry about it not working for whatever reason. Advice would be greatly appreciated! Can't wait to finally have the real thing set up!
Thanks