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<blockquote data-quote="ARAHTHUL" data-source="post: 350028" data-attributes="member: 34218"><p>Hello everybody! I've just registered on this site just to ask a question about installation mode of W8.1.</p><p></p><p>At this moment, I have W7 Ultimate and it runs very well on an old PC, Intel Pentium Dual Core @ 1.6 GHz and 2 GB RAM (on C drive is installed the OS and I have another partition, D, for the regular stuff). So, let's say something went wrong and the OS behave like it shouldn't, or some errors just appear and can't be corrected, or anything else, it doesn't matter. </p><p></p><p>Now, I decide to reformat the partition where the OS is installed, but just this partition and not other partitions. I erase that partition, I recreate it, install it and voila! everything is fine, and I still have the second partition untouched. This is a scenario when, like I said, something went wrong and the only solution is reinstalling windows but you want to keep your other stuff.</p><p></p><p>I want to give W8.1 a try, but this comes to my mind: if I choose the above method, it'll be easy like with W7, or I need to erase both partitions, recreate it, choose one of them for OS and then proceed with installation? Because this is not what I want.</p><p></p><p>Thank you very much and I'm sorry for my english, it is not my native language.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARAHTHUL, post: 350028, member: 34218"] Hello everybody! I've just registered on this site just to ask a question about installation mode of W8.1. At this moment, I have W7 Ultimate and it runs very well on an old PC, Intel Pentium Dual Core @ 1.6 GHz and 2 GB RAM (on C drive is installed the OS and I have another partition, D, for the regular stuff). So, let's say something went wrong and the OS behave like it shouldn't, or some errors just appear and can't be corrected, or anything else, it doesn't matter. Now, I decide to reformat the partition where the OS is installed, but just this partition and not other partitions. I erase that partition, I recreate it, install it and voila! everything is fine, and I still have the second partition untouched. This is a scenario when, like I said, something went wrong and the only solution is reinstalling windows but you want to keep your other stuff. I want to give W8.1 a try, but this comes to my mind: if I choose the above method, it'll be easy like with W7, or I need to erase both partitions, recreate it, choose one of them for OS and then proceed with installation? Because this is not what I want. Thank you very much and I'm sorry for my english, it is not my native language. [/QUOTE]
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