XP to Win7: Extra drive ?

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Pradical

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Hello all. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Win7 Professional fairly soon. I know that it performs a clean install and that I need to back up my C drive.

My question is in regards to my secondary hardrive. Will the clean install also wipe the second hardrive or will it leave it untouched? Basically, can I back up my C drive onto the secondary drive without fear of losing it all?

I would assume it would leave the second drive alone but I couldn't find any info and thus, why I am here asking. Thanks for any help!!!
 

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OS
XP
Pradical said:
Hello all. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Win7 Professional fairly soon. I know that it performs a clean install and that I need to back up my C drive.

My question is in regards to my secondary hardrive. Will the clean install also wipe the second hardrive or will it leave it untouched? Basically, can I back up my C drive onto the secondary drive without fear of losing it all?

I would assume it would leave the second drive alone but I couldn't find any info and thus, why I am here asking. Thanks for any help!!!
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As far as I know it only wipes out what you tell it too (in this case, the partition Windows XP is installed on).

I usually just make a new partition on my laptop hard drive, called Back-Up, and save a back-up there before reinstalling.
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom | Whitebox
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
CPU
Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
Memory
2x2GB & 2x1GB (6GB) OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
Sound Card
Realtek ALC888
Monitor(s) Displays
21" VIZIO TV
Screen Resolution
1680x1050 @ 60Hz
Hard Drives
Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
PSU
Corsair 750W
Case
NZXT Nemesis Elite
Cooling
Thermaltake SpinQ
Keyboard
Logitech Wireless S520
Mouse
Logitech Wireless S520 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
Internet Speed
Download: 20mbps, Upload: 3mbps
For what it is worth, for a clean install, disconnect the power lead to the second drive. I always did this even with XP reason being that sometimes for some unknown reason the clean install would not be on the partition I designated. By disconneting the power from the second drive, eliminated the problem.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Pro
CPU
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Duel CPU E2200 2.20 Ghz
Motherboard
GA-G41M-ES2L
Memory
4 gb 2.96 Usable
Graphics Card(s)
Onboard
Sound Card
Onboard
Hard Drives
2 - 1TB WD Sata Drives
I got 3 hard drives, 2 being in raid0 and 1 is nonraid.
I wanted to install xp on my 3rd drive that is not on raid (turned raid off from bios first), so i went on and booted from cd, chose my 3rd drive and pressed enter.
It said it's unknown file system even though it was ntfs... so I went like hmm well what the hell, and pressed ok to format it.

I found out the install tried to format my raid disk, which didnt work for some reason, so i unplugged the raid drives for it to work.

My point is, never trust windows xp install :P
Unplug other drives.
 

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OS
Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU
E6420 (temporary)
Motherboard
G43 Twins-FullHD (temporary)
Memory
DDR2 2x1gb (temporary)
Graphics Card(s)
Evga GTX 480 Superclocked+
Sound Card
Creative X-FI Extreme Audio Pci-E
Monitor(s) Displays
2x24" Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
2xSamsung 500GB
Samsung F3 1 TB
PSU
OCZ GameXstream 850w
Case
Cooler Master HAF X
Keyboard
Logitech Illuminated
Mouse
Logitech MX518
Internet Speed
40/2
Awesome, thanks guys!

I will indeed disconnect the second drive. No use risking the lose of my backup when I don't have to :)
 

My Computer

OS
XP
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