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Save my hidden partition?
Hi! I just bought Windows 7 today and am excited to install it. I've backed up all the personal data I needed to and am now ready to install it, except for one thing. I can't make recovery disks for my current installation of Vista 64-bit (ie, if I really need to go back to it, I can't thanks to computers not coming with physical recovery disks anymore) because the utility that came with my computer won't work.
I really want to install Windows 7, but...
I know that the Vista files and my drivers are all on a hidden partition in my hard drive, will a clean install of 7 wipe this partition, and if so, is there a way I can prevent this? Or am I pretty much safe to install Windows 7 anyways?
Please help!