Back up,Restore and Upgrade

[ahmadhassan]

I have a dell inspiron n5110.its just new bought it a week ago ,i am looking forward to upgrade its windows from windows7 homebasic to win7 ultimate .now the problem is that i dont want to lose my data and programs that are installed on it.so now i am scared that when i will upgrade my windows from windows anytime upgrade some error might occur and i will lose my data and programs .so i want to back up windows and the programs that came along with it .if it is possible some how.and 1 more thing . i also want to back up my windows and its data because if i upgraded to windows7 ultimate and incase i dint like it or dint work properly . then i could come back to the windows7 home basic which is my current windows .

 

[AddRAM]

Make a disk image before you do anything. Either on a external hard drive or dvds. Does it have a recovery partition ? Post a pic of your disk management.

You should not loose anything when you do the upgrade.
There`s no reason you won`t like Ultimate.

 

[mitchell65]

What do you hope to gain by upgrading windows7 homebasic to Windows 7 ultimate and if you have only had the PC for a week why didn't you have it come with ultimate?

 

[ahmadhassan]

how do i make a disk image ?or did u mean system image ?well i have already made a system image . and my computer dies not have a recovery partition .since i bought it just showed the recovery partition once but later i dint even see it once .and as for mitchell65 as u know they charge more for windows ultimate , so i thought i would jus upgrade it myself .as u know u can easily get windows ultimate free online , from torrent sites ,

 

[Layback Bear]

That got to be the laugh of the decade.

 

[ahmadhassan]

i know i sound stupid

 

[mitchell65]

That got to be the laugh of the decade.

I just don't believe this. i wish we could keep it but i fear the Sword of Damacles will fall shortly!

 

[ahmadhassan]

well i thought i could get a little help from here , but guess i was wrong .

 

[AddRAM]

well i thought i could get a little help from here , but guess i was wrong .

I told you everything you need to know.

:banghead:

 

[ahmadhassan]

u dint tell me how to make a disk image .and will it back up the windows i am running and its programs??and how i would restore from it .

 

[AddRAM]

OMG, you said you already made it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

Anything you need is in the tutorials.