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Upgrading XP to Win 7 w/ my data on a separate partition

Oct 29, 2009 2:05PM PDT

I'm wondering when I upgrade from XP Pro to Win 7 Home Premium (32-bit), can I keep my data intact since it's on another partition? If so, will there be any problems with Win 7 other than pointing the Documents folder to the correct location? Just to be safe, I intend to image my whole drive anyway.

I'm also wondering if it's possible to install Win 7 on a second hard drive while keeping XP on the first one? This would be a dual-boot setup.

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After reading this some thousand times.
Oct 29, 2009 11:13PM PDT

Data that is not backed up is never safe. The lessons appear to only be learned not taught.

Sure, do that but understand that we only lose what we didn't back up.

Again, many have tried what you propose and some succeed and some learn the lesson about back up.
Bob

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I totally agree
Oct 30, 2009 2:49AM PDT

Rest assured that I didn't mean that I was going to take a huge risk and not backup. Of course I'm going to backup. Perhaps I didn't word my posting correctly. I meant to ask if having data on a separate partition would make Windows Easy Transfer unnecessary. Just wondering.

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Today I used easy transfer from Vista to 7
Oct 30, 2009 5:17AM PDT

And my answer is no. It didn't get it all so while it saved me some work I still had to go back and grab what it missed.

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Thanks for the info.
Oct 30, 2009 5:33AM PDT

I see you speak from experience. Thanks for the advice.