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decafchicken
United States20159 Posts
I'm pretty sure i'm going to have to back all my stuff up onto an external HD cuz i'm upgrading from winxp and i'll have to do a clean install. Or should i dual boot win7? Oh and wtf do i do with the .iso? Burn it to a DVD with a program? (daemon tools, nero, etc? any free ones?)   | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
Also, I'm not a big fan of dual boots. Unless you have a good reason to do it, just go the normal way: backup data to external medium, format everything and then go. I like the feeling of all garbage getting deleted and having a young and fresh computer again. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20159 Posts
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epicdoom
United States489 Posts
Like night said there's no reason to dual boot xp. Just clean install and yeah On August 28 2009 03:30 niteReloaded wrote: I like the feeling of all garbage getting deleted and having a young and fresh computer again. With the .iso file, a good free program to use is Active ISO burne r[http://download.cnet.com/Active-ISO-Burner/3000-2646_4-10602452.html]. Burn it to a DVD and then shutdown computer, reset, and you're good to go! | ||
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epicdoom
United States489 Posts
On August 28 2009 03:36 decafchicken wrote: When i back up all my shit it wont back up my programs will it? I'll have to reinstall sc/aim/browsers/etc? Yes | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
I don't actually know anything about switching from the 32-bit to the 64-bit or vice versa, but I would imagine it's just like installing a whole new OS. In other words, I think you'd have to go through the whole install process all over again. I thought I had to backup all my stuff when I reinstalled Vista(I got the .iso off a torrent, it wasn't original) so I did, but it turns out afterwards I could still access all the files I had with Windows 7 even though I was only running Vista. Under my C drive there was a folder or something that had EVERYTHING I had before reformatting. I didn't even have to transfer stuff through an external harddrive. I don't know if this will happen for you, but I'm just saying my experience in it. Using the .iso I torrented, I just mounted it as a CD image and installed it while running Windows 7. I didn't even have to burn it to a CD and run it that way(although I'm sure I could have). Once again, I don't know if it is possible for you to do this, but it worked for me. | ||
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tec27
United States3702 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
not sure why you think 2 GB RAM and 64 bit OS don't mix | ||
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decafchicken
United States20159 Posts
And grobyc, windows vista to win 7 is real ez upgrade, but xp to 7 is a clean install  | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
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coltrane
Chile988 Posts
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ramen247
United States1256 Posts
64 bit's compatibility is not as wide spread as 32 bit. you may run into more compat. issues with it than with 32. | ||
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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