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Upgrade Routes
Hi everyone!
Just a little one really... I've got a 3 month old from DELL, the 'FREE' upgrade is on the way, but I have a copy of W7 from MSDNAA, but when I installed it there was almost zero support for my drivers... DELL has promised a resource CD that will contain the necessary drivers, but I'm pretty sure that my after market adapter (NETGEAR WNDA3100) will not be supported.. which leaves me up the creek if a) I dont have any drivers shipped, b) they are out of date...
So... I'm thinking partition my HDD and do a clean install in the new partition to test.
but then, should I reformat the whole HDD and perform a clean install, or just upgrade on the original partition?
or... can I just transfer from the old to the new and remove the Vista partition and expand the Win7 one?
Is this ok? I know everyone says its always better to do a clean install, but it seems easier to just upgrade... and i've just finished installing my favourite apps etc...
Any thoughts??
Sorry for the ramblings! First post!!!
Thanks in advance!