Windows 7 Upgrade Questions

[diddo09]

Hi everyone,
I am planning to upgrade my laptop from Vista 32 bits to Wins 7 Pro 64 bits. I am concern that there will be some kind of software incompatibility with the new operating system. Before installing Wins 7 Pro 64 bits, I also planning to upgrade my laptop memory from 2gb to 4gb. As for hard-drive, not sure if I want to upgrade from 250 gb to 500 gb before the installation of Wins 7. I am also concern that if I do a fresh installation for wins 7, will my HP's Vista recovery drive will be erase after I do a new fresh installation of a different windows? Also, Is it possible to upgrade the laptop hard-drive? My laptop is about two years old and I keep it run likes NEW [literally!!!]. What should I do?

Is it possible to move my HP's Vista Recovery Disk Driver to a new hard-drive?

DD09

[stammer]

hello, I myself dont know the anwear to your question but maybe these people can help
http://www.sevenforums.com/ . Or maybe some else from here will see this and know the answear. Good luck.

[Polkadot]

Your HP recovery partition will not be erased, but if you ever do use it in the future, it will restore your Vista, not your new Windows 7.

[Raymond]

No the recovery partition will not be erased if you install Windows 7 on where your Vista partition is.
However, you will no longer able to restore Vista because the MBR will be overwritten.

Make sure you backup your MBR.
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/11/10/5-free-tools-to-backup-and-restore-master-boot-record-mbr/

[noaccount]

You can restore Vista and Recovery Partition later if you use the recovery DVDs.