Vista 32 To 7-64 Clean Install Save Files

Oct 2, 2011

what I have: Vista 32 bit system - 2 hard drives

what I want: Win 7 64 bit system - 2 hard drives

what I want to do: a clean install of Win 7 64 bit on the primary hard drive

the second hard drive is free to be used as a backup location during the clean install process

question: how do I backup all critical data to the secondary hard drive before doing a clean install on the primary drive? and then how do I reinstall the data from the secondary drive back to the primary hard drive with the new Win 7 64 bit system on it?

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