will vista keep all original files

Hello, I am thinking of installing Windows Vista, btu not sure whether it would keep all the original files I had on my laptop (non-system files such as My documents and so on). Does anyone have any idea on that? Thanks!

A Zhu wrote:

Hello, I am thinking of installing Windows Vista, btu not sure whether it would keep all the original files I had on my laptop (non-system files such as My documents and so on). Does anyone have any idea on that? Thanks!

It should. But as with any major modification to your computer (and installing an upgrade of the OS is a major modification) you should always make sure you have a good and current backup just in case things go bad. Add to that the fact that this is a beta release, not production quality, and that just increases the need to be cautious. -- Tom Porterfield

You do an upgrade from XP, it will retain your existing documents and settings. There is no guarantee though that the upgrade will be successful. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"A Zhu" <A Zhu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

Hello, I am thinking of installing Windows Vista, btu not sure whether it would keep all the original files I had on my laptop (non-system files such as My documents and so on). Does anyone have any idea on that? Thanks!

Be warned it does overwrite the boot drive MBR and use it's own OS loader so if you delete Vista and it's bootloader, boot.ini from XP will not load the old system.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

You do an upgrade from XP, it will retain your existing documents and settings. There is no guarantee though that the upgrade will be successful. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"A Zhu" <A Zhu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message Hello, I am thinking of installing Windows Vista, btu not sure whether it would keep all the original files I had on my laptop (non-system files such as My documents and so on). Does anyone have any idea on that? Thanks!

Hello, I am thinking of installing Windows Vista, btu not sure whether it would keep all the original files I had on my laptop (non-system files such as My documents and so on). Does anyone have any idea on that? Thanks!