Install the drivers for the upgrade and clean

I ordered a drive to upgrade dell for my laptop that is currently on vista premium, do I need to download all the drivers on an external source before the upgrade?

In addition, my office is on vista Basic, I am not sure if I have to do a clean install or upgrade, will not lose all the drivers after formatting the hard drive to do a fresh install? or is there another good way to do it? or... it's just better for me to go with the upgrade option?

No, you will not have to uninstall Vista once you have upgraded to Windows 7.  Windows 7 will be the only operating system on your computer.  You can perform a clean install of Vista to Windows 7, but after installing Windows 7 in this way, you will have to reinstall all your programs, settings and files.

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