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Dual Boot Question- Vista to 7 32-bit
Hello everyone,
I have read through the tutorial stickies and I might have an answer to my question but I'd like to make sure I've come to the correct conclusion before I break a computer.
Here is the situation (I'll try to cover all the details)-
My girlfriend has a laptop running Vista 32-bit. I want to add Win7 and dual-boot her laptop. I have the .ISO of an OEM copy of Win7 Ultimate.
I know that to dual-boot a system I'd have to create a partition (downloaded Partition Wizard as suggested by this sticky guide) to install Win7 to. The only issue I'm having is I don't know how an OEM install differs from other install versions/types. Would the OEM install delete everything in the hard drive?
I don't have many back-up solutions. I downloaded Macrium Reflect (sticky guide again) but am unsure of how well the free version will back-up documents and stuff since I have never used it before. I don't have any external storage media in a large enough size to be able to back up all her pics/music/docs etc.
I guess in short I want to know if I can dual-boot and install an OEM version of Win7 on a partition created by Partition Wizard.
Any help/comments are very much appreciated, thanks in advance.