buy a good external hard drive and just copy everything you need to it. i wouldn t install windows 7 onto anything you plan to use, i d install it on an extra computer to play around with first as it s going to be a very painful experience.
Driveimage xml download a copy of it and plan to spend 10 to 12 hours to complete everything. If you are not currently using Vista make sure you have at least 2 gig of RAM. Also read all the requirement specs for the target OS. Your video card will be critical also. The download is several gig so allow a day for that. The backup will have to be done to an external hard drive if you have much on the old one. If the target system is a laptop there will be hardware and driver related issues. Make sure those are resolved before beginning. The windows 7 beta is not a bootable distribution so you will need winrar to open the iso and begin the install. This alone will consume a number of hours.
you can create 2 backups: 1. use a backup software like acronis true image to backup the whole c drive or all harddrives in your pc, and store this in an external harddrive. this way, when windows 7 expires in august, you can easily restore your pc back to its working state. 2. copy and paste folders in an external harddrive to store your important files like outlook (either copy the pst file or export the pst file from outlook) files, ie favorites, my documents folder, google earth files, etc. this is to restore them in the windows 7, if you like to use windows 7 for the moment.
Recommend you to use either Norton Ghost 14.0 or Acronis True Image Home 2009 to back up everything that you had in the computer system.
You can use whatever you like ;} YUS lol
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