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Purchasing a Windows upgrade
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If I purchased the new Windows 7 upgrade if in future I needed to do a recovery would I have to load the previous Windows and updates each time beforehand? Also do you always need the previous version or could you go back more than 1 version?
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If you buy the upgrade version of Windows 7 and something terrible happens and you need to reinstall the whole system, you'll have to install Windows XP or Vista (ie. the one you're running at the moment) and then reinstall the upgrade.
All in all, a very laborious process indeed and not one I'd be happy about having to do. Plus, I've been reading a few horror stories about the upgrade path. A clean install of Windows 7 however seems to be relatively trouble free.
If you go down the upgrade route, I'd advise you to also buy a big external hard drive (I've just bought a 1 terabyte drive from Tesco for £65), download some free disc imaging software such as...
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
... and backup your system after a sucessful upgrade. Then if the worst comes to the worst, at least you can recover your Windows 7 system relatively painlessly.
If you buy the upgrade version of Windows 7 and something terrible happens and you need to reinstall the whole system, you'll have to install Windows XP or Vista (ie. the one you're running at the moment) and then reinstall the upgrade.
All in all, a very laborious process indeed and not one I'd be happy about having to do. Plus, I've been reading a few horror stories about the upgrade path. A clean install of Windows 7 however seems to be relatively trouble free.
If you go down the upgrade route, I'd advise you to also buy a big external hard drive (I've just bought a 1 terabyte drive from Tesco for £65), download some free disc imaging software such as...
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
... and backup your system after a sucessful upgrade. Then if the worst comes to the worst, at least you can recover your Windows 7 system relatively painlessly.