Vista install question

[sjetexas]

I am finally making a leap into installing 64 bit Vista from XP. Right now I have one partition on my hard drive (C drive) that has the OS and most apps and all my games are on a second partition (D drive). If I do a fresh (not upgrade) install for Vista on the C drive...is my data on the D partition going to be safe? Will it be necessary or even recommended to reinstall those games? Any potential stability issues even if the data itself is there?

Thanks!

 

[philbrown23]

the D partition should be fine but it could corrupt, you should not need to reinstall any games just update them

 

[abaez]

I installed onto a c os partition with the rest of the drive as D. No problems at all (they weren't games though, just movie files and the like).

 

[corkyg]

Whether or not you have to reinstall games, etc., really depends on how they are designed. If they are self-sufficient and are not interactive with the OS Registry, they will probably not have to be reinstalled - just linked to shortcuts.

However, if they are registered, they will have to be reinstalled. (Registered meaning they are interactive in the OS Registry.)

 

[Modelworks]

If the games use those pesky DRM systems you may have to re-install.
The data on drive D will be fine unless you go back to a previous windows then you may run into some permission issues trying to delete things.