8 General Windows upgrade question

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I am debating whether or not to get the upgrade of windows 8 or not. The upgrade will sweep everything on my drive? If I went out and bought windows 8 at Best Buy, etc. and installed, it will wipe my drive?

Good question!

With your laptop Windows 7 If you decide to upgrade to Win8 you can choose the wipe and reinstall method or simply be upgraded without wiping the drive. The reason more clean the disk to upgrade is to get addional features that have been added with the BIOS updates on their cell phone (Ex: UEFI BIOS for Secure Boot).

With your system, you can just choose the upgrade and do not have programs becides of issues that might not be compatible or lack of drivers at the moment.

If I were you I would wait a couple of weeks and let the ethusiasts test retail upgrade/features/performance to get a good idea of the issues that you might encounter.

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