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Maybe the dumb question of the day...
Thanks for the help you have given me so far, even without posting!
I have a home built system which has passed the windows 7 64 bit requirements scan thingie. Right now I run xp 32 bit on my c drive, have 3 other sata (G/H internal, R in a hot swap tray + S in an external dock) drives and a ide drive hot swap tray - no raid. I do video work, so harddrives pile up around here. I also have a multi card reader, a wacom tablet and an external burner. Is there any of this hardware I should unplug before install? Most of what I read is that with a clean install on a fresh drive things go much smoother.
I have built 2 computers, replaced many a drive & reinstalled xp a couple of times, so I am not a dummy...just real lucky. I have not had many problems in doing all I have. I am just too nervous about losing my XP installation right off to try a dual boot. I bought a new 1tb drive and I am wondering if I could just take out my C: drive & install the new drive in it's place and install 7 & all my programs - as if the C died & I replaced it?
Ok, if I can do that, can I swap the two drives physically later (while the machine is off of course) & go back to XP if I find the real need to do so(and then back to 7)? Like to deactivate some Adobe software, or do a quick job before I get my programs fully installed on the windows 7 drive. My intention is to get 7 running with all my software & then reformat the old C drive & use it for storage, not to be swapping them on a regular basis.
Sorry to be long winded