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Hey all,

I'm about to switch to Windows 7 from Vista via an HP upgrade disk, and just had a few questions. First, should I first restore my notebook to factory Vista settings with system recovery disks (there's quite a bit of crap on the system, as well as a lot of expensive preloaded software that I don't want to lose via a reformat)? And if so, should I get all of the available updates for vista/windows/whatever before I upgrade to 7? Thanks guys.

Regards,
Jon

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If you have expensive preloaded stuff I would not recomend formatting your hard drive because Windows 7 will overwrite everything. But is yor hard drive partitioned??

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Thanks for the quick reply! The harddrive is partitioned, C:/ is where my OS and everything is, and D:/ is the recovery partition. So even if I restore to factory settings, preloaded stuff and all, upgrading to 7 will overwrite?

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