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LSMFT
How long do I need to keep this directory which was made after upgrading
Vista to Windows 7.
Vista to Windows 7.
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Dave
LSMFT said:How long do I need to keep this directory which was made after upgrading
Vista to Windows 7.
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LSMFT
Drive slower than the posted speed.............................
And you too can become a fracking prick..............
Not a scientific answer, but I've read postings, some recently in this NG,
where people delete it once they are satisfied their upgrade is operating
fine and no problems.
HTH,
Dave
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LD55ZRA
LSMFT said:How long do I need to keep this directory which was made after upgrading
Vista to Windows 7.
As long as you want to keep it. There is no specific requirement for
it. It is there to enable you to revert back to Vista if you decide
Win7 isn't your type! I did a clean install so don't have this folder
on my system.
hth
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Trev
LD55ZRA said:As long as you want to keep it. There is no specific requirement for
it. It is there to enable you to revert back to Vista if you decide
Win7 isn't your type! I did a clean install so don't have this folder
on my system.
hth
I did a clean install having had XP on prior And It made the windows old
folder. If i had know about this and not backed up Pst and other date files.
I'm sure it would not have
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LSMFT
As long as you want to keep it. There is no specific requirement for
it. It is there to enable you to revert back to Vista if you decide
Win7 isn't your type! I did a clean install so don't have this folder
on my system.
hth
I did a clean install also changing from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit WIndows
7 and it made Windows.old.
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relic
LSMFT said:I did a clean install also changing from 32 bit Vista to 64 bit WIndows
7 and it made Windows.old.
What do you (and Trev) think a "Clean" install is?
Had you, there's no way you'd have the Windows.Old folder.
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LSMFT
Microsoft's explanation of a clean install with an upgrade disk.relic said:What do you (and Trev) think a "Clean" install is?
It was on their web site.
I know what you mean. A bald drive install.
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relic
LSMFT said:Microsoft's explanation of a clean install with an upgrade disk.
It was on their web site.
I know what you mean. A bald drive install.
To be sure I had a "Clean" install, I booted into the Recovery Console on my
XP CD and did a full Format of my disk (W7 won't actually do a full format).
After booting from my Windows 7 DVD I selected a Custom" install and let
Windows 7 install itself. The 'trick' to do a full install with an upgrade
disk is to NOT enter the DVD Key and to uncheck the box about activating the
next time you're online. Instead, next time you've got it up and running,
choose to activate and _then_ enter your key to activate it.
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Conor
How long do I need to keep this directory which was made after upgrading
Vista to Windows 7.
As long or as little as you want to.
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Conor
To be sure I had a "Clean" install, I booted into the Recovery Console
on my XP CD and did a full Format of my disk
That is not a clean install. Any MBR viruses on the HDD would still be
there. You cannot do a clean install from an installation disk.
Formatting or even repartitioning a drive does not erase the data, it
merely marks it as available for overwriting.
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nooneyouknow
Conor said:That is not a clean install. Any MBR viruses on the HDD would still be
there. You cannot do a clean install from an installation disk. Formatting
or even repartitioning a drive does not erase the data, it merely marks it
as available for overwriting.
Idiot.
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Conor
Wow. What a rebuttal. Perhaps you'd like to include some facts to backIdiot.
up that?
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relic
Conor said:That is not a clean install. Any MBR viruses on the HDD would still be
there. You cannot do a clean install from an installation disk. Formatting
or even repartitioning a drive does not erase the data, it merely marks it
as available for overwriting.
Whatever Conor, whatever,
<shakes head>
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nooneyouknow
Conor said:Wow. What a rebuttal. Perhaps you'd like to include some facts to back up
that?
One only needs to look at your posting history.
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Trev
relic said:What do you (and Trev) think a "Clean" install is?
Had you, there's no way you'd have the Windows.Old folder.
I let winds disc format my C drive and install Win 7 on it Part of that
process is to create a Windows old folder if it find a Previous OS on the
drive.
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Dave
Trev said:I let winds disc format my C drive and install Win 7 on it Part of
that process is to create a Windows old folder if it find a Previous OS on
the drive.
But that's the point - if it was a clean install it would not find a
previous OS and so would not create a windows.old folder.
When you go to the shop to buy a brand-new hard drive, you can't put it in
the computer and expect to start using it straight away because it won't
work. It has to be prepared first and that is done by formatting (and if you
so wish, partitioning) it. In effect what you're doing is laying out a
structure to it, telling it that this area here can be used for this, that
area over there can be used for that, etc., etc.
In order to keep track of what's going where, a table is created. Think of
it like the table of contents of a book - the list tells you something like:
Chapter 6, The songs of Led Zeppelin, Page 58, so you know that if you turn
to page 58 you'll find the songs of Led Zeppelin. If a previously used hard
drive (or partition) is formatted, what you're effectively doing is removing
the table of contents - the data (the songs of Led Zeppelin) is still there
but you don't know where it is and you don't know where to look for it so
you can't find it. Or to put it in the context of this topic, your new OS
would not see the old OS and therefore would not create a windows.old
folder.
Personally, I would delete the partition, create a new partition in the now
unpartitioned space, and format that - that is a clean install.
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LD55ZRA
Conor said:You cannot do a clean install from an installation disk. Formatting or
even repartitioning a drive does not erase the data, it merely marks it as
available for overwriting.
Although this is true, but chances of any viruses of malware becoming active
is almost next to zero. Formatting a HD is good enough for majority of
people and it will do a GENUINE clean install of the operating system.
hth
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LD55ZRA
One only needs to look at your posting history.
Not as good idea because through history mankind haven't learnt anything
otherwise we would all stop fighting and instead work cooperatively to
improve our lifestyles.
The amount of money spent bombing Iraq and Afghanistan would have been more
than sufficient to feed the needy -- this assumes everybody is serious about
this issue and genuinely wants to help the poor people on this planet!.
hth
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R. C. White
Hi, Dave.
Mostly correct, but...
Both partitioning and formatting are required before a "drive" can be used
by Windows. Partitioning is not optional, and must be done before
formatting.
We never format a physical HDD. We must first create at least one partition
on the disk, even if that one partition includes the entire disk surface.
Then we format the partition. When we say "drive", as in "Drive C:", we are
usually referring to a partition, not the entire physical disk drive.
(Yes, the physical disk must be "low-level formatted", but that is done at
the factory and seldom - if ever these days - done in the field. What we do
now - using Disk Management or a 3rd-party utility - is a high-level
format.)
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
[email protected]
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
When you go to the shop to buy a brand-new hard drive,...
... It has to be prepared first and that is done by formatting (and if you
so wish, partitioning) it.
Mostly correct, but...
Both partitioning and formatting are required before a "drive" can be used
by Windows. Partitioning is not optional, and must be done before
formatting.
We never format a physical HDD. We must first create at least one partition
on the disk, even if that one partition includes the entire disk surface.
Then we format the partition. When we say "drive", as in "Drive C:", we are
usually referring to a partition, not the entire physical disk drive.
(Yes, the physical disk must be "low-level formatted", but that is done at
the factory and seldom - if ever these days - done in the field. What we do
now - using Disk Management or a 3rd-party utility - is a high-level
format.)
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
[email protected]
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
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nooneyouknow
LD55ZRA said:Not as good idea because through history mankind haven't learnt anything
otherwise we would all stop fighting and instead work cooperatively to
improve our lifestyles.
The amount of money spent bombing Iraq and Afghanistan would have been
more than sufficient to feed the needy -- this assumes everybody is
serious about this issue and genuinely wants to help the poor people on
this planet!.
Bad assumption.