upgrading from vista to 7

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  1. Big Ry
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    cool thanx. i just got a seagate freeagent go 500GB drive for $80 :) wish me luck!
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  3. gregrocker
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    It should come with free imaging software so you can save a backup image of Vista on a primary partition you create on your new HD. I would put Win7 on the first partition though. Both of those will need to be formatted Primary NTFS.

    If you want to make a data drive in the middle, make it logical formatted.
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