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    upgrading to windows 7, will it wipe my installation partition of vista?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sar1, Oct 23, 2009.

  1. sar1

    sar1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, i am pondering around the idea of upgrading to windows 7, i currently have a acer 7720g laptop, which has a intel core 2 duo cpu @ 2ghz, 4 gb ram etc.. the laptop has a vista instalation on the partition somewhere so if i want to reinstall vista theres a command i press, cant think of it now, and it lets me wipe the laptop and reinstall vista from the partition, my question is, if i install a fresh cope of windows 7 will it wipe this partition so i am unable to put vista back on if i ever wanted / needed to?
     
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  2. red123

    red123 Notebook Consultant

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    Upgrading to Windows 7 does not prevent you from installing any other OS. You can format your computer and reinstall Vista if you like after you upgrade to Win7.

    EDITED: I am assuming that the partition that you are talking about is a recovery partition that your manufacturer put into your HD. As long as you do not mess with that partition, then you can always use it to recover back to Vista. Upgrading to Win7 will not mess with the recovery partition.
     
    red123, Oct 23, 2009
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    DarkSilver MSI Afterburner

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    The partition will still be there if you didn't delete or format the recovery partition of Vista OEM Acer MBR.
    However, you can't access them or use them already because Clean Installation of OS will terminate the Acer MBR. I mean you can't use the Recovery Partition to restore your laptop to Vista OEM Acer MBR already.
    You need to burn-out the Recovery Partition into Recovery Discs(which you can do it using Acer eRecovery Management) before doing anything stupid. Then, when you want to roll back to Vista OEM Acer MBR, you can use the Recovery Discs.
    If you have the Recovery Discs, you can delete the Recovery Partition if you want or you can just leave it there.
     
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    Same issue on a Samsung Q320; I now have Windows7 on C: drive and Vista on the (hidden) recovery partition. Is it possible to install Windows7 on the recovery partition?
     
    dSly, Feb 6, 2010
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