Question about installing windows 7 and recovery?

Question

I have an Acer Aspire 6920G. I've been wanting to upgrade to windows 7 but I'm concerned about recovery. My laptop has its own built in recovery so I can revert back to factory defaults. My question is, if I do a clean install, will I still be able to recover back to vista if there's a problem? The recovery has it's own partition, so if I don't touch it, should it be ok? Is it just safer to recover back to defaults and then just upgrade?

Answer 1

If you don't screw with the recovery partition yes you will be able to revert back to vista HOWEVER you never will want to. win7 is over 9000 times better then vista.

Answer 2

Hi gur3000,



Before upgrading run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to make sure your computer is ready to run Windows 7. If you get the green light, you should purchase an upgrade version of Windows 7 (this version is only good if you have XP or Vista installed first...and it'll save you money over the full version. Since you plan on doing a clean installation, you will need to back-up anything on your computer that you wish to save as it will be wiped during the installation process.



After installing Windows 7, you will have a whole set of recovery options to choose from - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7



Hope this helps!



Cheers,

Cassandra

Microsoft Windows Outreach

Answer 3

if you have not made a set of recovery disk's, ( recovery manager or under system tools ) I dont remember axactly but there somwhere you can, I would strongly recomend that you do before you install win 7,