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Originally Posted by bert8for3
IMHO, I would just back up data to an external hard drive (pretty cheap these days). Then reformat and load with Win7 from scratch, which has to be beter than trying an upgrade.
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That's what I'm saying, right? Just add a new HD, and load the full version of Win7. You don't need to back anything from your original HD, as longam says, you can still access the files.
Some long time back, on my old PC, my Windows was corrupted and the PC would not boot up. Tried a lot of things, but it would not boot up. So I bought a new, and much larger, HD, made it the master and slaved the original with all my files, and installed XP on the new HD. Computer worked great, all the programs on the old HD with corrupted Windows worked fine.