Windows 7 Winner

[BTOR]

You may consider installing windows seven from inside vista this way your vista will upgrade to seven without the need to backup nor reinstall any program but (expect for worst and pray to get the best)

[Newbie Comp user]

I would like to keep my Vista..I'm weighing my options and asking around as to what's best to do..Not going to make haste in this, I'm a newbie and don't want to do something stupid..Fairly new computer too..What's the best way to back up my files, which files should I back up etc., etc., pls be patient

.Thanks for the help (so far)
WH645

No problem I would say getting an External Hard Drive; back up the files that YOU CARE FOR.
Oh by the way, do you have your Windows Vista installation disc?

[BTOR]

If you are going to dual boot only you may have vista else ........

[Granny]

ALL, I'm one of the (lucky) Windows 7 winners and just found out I could download the ISO file and get it that way, what I need to know is, What to do with Vista, all my files, etc., (hope not too dumb of a question) before I put W7 on here..I know I need to back files up, but anything else?? I'm pretty new to this..

Info here on upgrade from vista vs clean install of Windows 7


Backup your Documents, bookmarks, email contacts, pictures, in other words - anything you created... which you wish to save.

I always partition my drive, (do a search on free partitioning software) operating system on c:, then create a smallish partition on D: called Data, then I move/save all documents, bookmarks, passcards and so on to D: - this makes it easy to back them up to another (portable) drive, so they are never lost. Another partition contains all my install files, downloads and so on..

Been doing it this way for years, and have never lost data (touch wood) due to an operating system failure - if you have any problem, just format c, and there you go

Also, there is some good free image creating software out there that allows you to create an image of your c: drive once you have it just the way you want it, and you can restore the image to get back to a nice clean Windows, without overwriting any of your essential data.

Takes a bit longer at the start, but works well!!

Hope this helps

[sm1]

It is better to dual boot windows 7 with vista for sometime and if possible move all the data to another partition which has no OS installed.