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(Unverified)Jan 31st 2009 12:23AM

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I installed Windows 7 on my Acer Aspire One today. The upgrade option fails saying you can't upgrade XP to 7. The interesting thing I found here was I went ahead and selected what I thought was going to be a clean install. To my surprise, the used space on the hard drive was nearly identical to what it was before the install. As I browsed through the drive I discovered all of my data was still there. All of my docs, music, apps, etc. were not lost during the install. None of the apps will run, but they're there. This is the fist Windows install I've seen behave this way. I wonder if there's a way to roll back to the previous install of XP since everything is still there?

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phezJan 31st 2009 8:35AM

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If you didn't reformat the drive, then yes, your files should still be there. Different folders are used in vista/7.

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