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Reinstalling over corrupt OS
I have a year old "gifted" computer currently running Windows 7 Ultimate OEM.
Much of the software on it was transferred over from another standalone XP computer. This represents years of accumulated data.
Unfortunately, all that old software has come back to haunt me : running slow, if all. And corrupted registry, etc. etc. -- a real mess.
If that wasn't enough there was also a bag of malware on the machine. I have spent the last several days cleaning it so the machine will run half decently. So far, so good! No trace of any viruses or malware
Along the way I also found out that the OS may be corrupted (as in non-legit) as there appears to be some sort of EULA boot loader (DAZ.Loader?) on it (from the guy who originally set up the computer for me).
With that in mind I think it's now best that I repurchase a legit copy of Windows 7 Pro (at least) OEM and reinstall the whole thing properly. But I'm not sure how this new OS will work with the remnants of the other OS still on the computer.
As I still want to hang on to our most sacred data that's well integrated on both the OS drive and the larger data drives, I need to find out what the best approach is here?
I'd appreciate some help here
I do have Acronis True Image to help out. I would also like to set up Windows software RAID1(mirror) on the 2 data drives -- for some reason the m/b RAID packed it in.