Installing Win 7 64 Bit While Keeping A Partition With Data

Nov 27, 2009

currently i have vista 32 b with 2 partitions one for system and one for data

if i want to do a fresh install to 64 b Windows 7 and keep the data on

my data partition, can it be done ? or must backup my data on external

source and format both partitions?

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