So I'm thinking of upgrading my PC from Windows XP to Windows 7 since I've been playing around with it on my brothers PC today, and I bought a copy a few months back for only £15 (College were having a special offer on it, yay me), and it was pretty good, although some things I didn't like. My main reason would be in order to play some of the newer games since I'm still running Windows XP (Obviously), the rest of my settings are high enough (Overpowered PC for the win, quite literally), but some of the newer ones require you to have Vista/7, so you can see my dilemma...
I've got a couple of questions for anyone that's done this before;
Everywhere says I need to do a custom install, which in essence would erase all my files etc., however, some people claim to have kept all of their files in a windows.old folder, is this true?
Following the previous question, people have said that you don't need to click the custom install option, you can click the upgrade option (Which is intended for Vista > 7 upgrade), and when the error message or whatever appears, you can just ignore it and it still works while keeping your files, is this true also?
The reason I'm asking is because I have a 1TB HDD on this machine, over 400GB has been used so far, and I don't have any external HDD, just some USB drives which are 4GB each (Got 3, lol...) and I'd rather not lose all of my music files, images, work files, films etc. etc.
Thanks to anyone that can answer, I'd prefer more than one answer on this actually.
I've got a couple of questions for anyone that's done this before;
Everywhere says I need to do a custom install, which in essence would erase all my files etc., however, some people claim to have kept all of their files in a windows.old folder, is this true?
Following the previous question, people have said that you don't need to click the custom install option, you can click the upgrade option (Which is intended for Vista > 7 upgrade), and when the error message or whatever appears, you can just ignore it and it still works while keeping your files, is this true also?
The reason I'm asking is because I have a 1TB HDD on this machine, over 400GB has been used so far, and I don't have any external HDD, just some USB drives which are 4GB each (Got 3, lol...) and I'd rather not lose all of my music files, images, work files, films etc. etc.
Thanks to anyone that can answer, I'd prefer more than one answer on this actually.