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Deacon:
Do you have any particular reason to believe internal drive 2 will be an option?? Best guess based on prior MS OS releases, insider info, or rank hope? I have always clean installed to a drive with an OS and can't recall available choices.
Re backups: my intent is to buy a new 1.5 TB backup drive in the next week or 2 and make fresh data backups to it. Then reinstall my current backup drive and use it as a Win 7 destination, overwriting all data on it. Then reinstall new backup drive. My current Vista drive has OS and data partitions (C and D).
4 alternative extreme strategies if needed:
Image Vista from current C to drive 2, then clean install 7 to C on drive 2.
Transfer entire Vista system drive (C and D) to drive 2 with Acronis, then clean install 7 to C on drive 2.
Clean install 7 to current Vista C, then transfer entire 7 system (C and D) to drive 2 with Acronis.
Clean install 7 to current Vista C, make an image of it with Acronis, then restore that image to drive 2.
Ideally, I avoid these extreme strategies and just clean install directly to drive 2. I'd prefer to avoid imaging apps.