Custom Install = Saved Personal Files?


  1. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, MacOS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard
       #1

    Custom Install = Saved Personal Files?


    Hi,
    I need to reinstall Windows 7 Ultimate over my current Windows 7 Ultimate installation due to an unfixable boot error (blue screen). I cannot access Windows to perform an upgrade (which keeps files and programs), so I'd like to know; if I perform a custom install from the DVD, will my personal files (videos, music etc..) be saved in the Windows.old folder?

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #2

    Yes, see method 2 in this tut.

    Custom Install Windows 7

    Heres how to restore the windows.old folder.

    Windows.old folder - Restore into a new installation
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 8
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, MacOS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks... Now running fresh copy of Windows, files where intact in the Windows.old folder :)
      My Computer


 

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