OK, I have done this before but it has been quite sometime and naturally with smaller drives and other versions of windows.
I just purchased a new 750 gig HDD to replace my current smaller HDD. I did quite a bit of looking around and checking
and was assured that my computer could handle the upgrade.
Dell Dimension E510 computer. Currently running XP. Pretty much ran out of disk space and am putting data on an external HDD.
I want to remove the current HDD and put in the new 750 HDD and then install Win 7 on the disk.
I have read “Clean-install Windows 7 from the upgrade disc By Woody Leonhard ” and think I should be ok doing this.
Should I, will I be able to, perform a new disk format prior to installing Win 7? Even if the disk is already formatted?
I thought I read somewhere that doing such a formatting prior to Win 7 installation was a good idea even if the disk had already
been formatted (and I am not really sure this new disk has been). I would, of course, be performing a full complete formatting.
Naturally I have made a back-up to an external HDD of all my data. I have also taken screen shots of pretty much everything I
can think of as a precaution.
Any thoughts, suggestions are very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Randall
It was very fast, even on a three year old 1.67 Ghz Core 2 processor and only 2 GB ram. I seem to remember only one re-boot. I love Win7.
