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Vista install question

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sjetexas

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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!

 
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).
 
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.)
 
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.

 
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