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devilmusic · 07-01-2010, 02:31 PM

I would back up all your data via copy/paste to an external drive, then try adding the new drives after your new Windows 7 box is up and running. You shouldn;t really have any issues, though check first to make sure Win7 is 32 bit (vs 64 bit) as Win 7 will prompt you that it needs to 'scan and fix' drives formatted under a 32 bit OS. I ignore that warnng, and it's never caused me any problems. Any problems you do run into would be because of the change from 32 bit to 64 bit, but if you back up your data, you're always safe.

I copied all my needed data from Win XP SP2 to a couple Western Digital external drives, and my Win 7 64 bit laptop has no trouble reading/using the data, aside from the aforementioned warning. Good luck!

07-01-2010, 02:31 PM
devilmusic Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 12	I would back up all your data via copy/paste to an external drive, then try adding the new drives after your new Windows 7 box is up and running. You shouldn;t really have any issues, though check first to make sure Win7 is 32 bit (vs 64 bit) as Win 7 will prompt you that it needs to 'scan and fix' drives formatted under a 32 bit OS. I ignore that warnng, and it's never caused me any problems. Any problems you do run into would be because of the change from 32 bit to 64 bit, but if you back up your data, you're always safe. I copied all my needed data from Win XP SP2 to a couple Western Digital external drives, and my Win 7 64 bit laptop has no trouble reading/using the data, aside from the aforementioned warning. Good luck!