Upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate

Hello.

I have a HP Pavilion dv4-1240TX laptop computer running Windows Vista (32-bit) basic family. And want to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate.

Corresponds to the system requirements. I also have the HP Recovery Manager recovery disks.

The questions are, how do I do the laptop bootable so that I can start the installation? And I'll lose the Drive (drive D) Recovery?

I downloaded the driver for Win 7 package for my laptop

http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?OS=4062 & LC = on & CC = US & DLC = in & sw_lang = & Product = 3877...

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: I just found out the correction software in the general guide, other questions remain

Hello:

I start the computer, install the disk in the DVD drive, and restart. To the HP splash screen hit key F9 several times, and you should be presented with a boot menu. Select your DVD drive and you'll be off and running.

Sure just that when it asks you where to install windows, select your existing C drive and not delete all partitions. I cannot reformat or anything like that. So, if you do not remove your recovery partition, install W7 x 64 has no effect on it.

What I did all my facilities W7 32 or 64-bit was just install W7 x 64 right above the existing Vista/XP OS and it will create a folder named Windows.old.

Once installation is complete, you can delete the Windows.old folder and retrieve usable disk space. You can also still get all files, music and photos, that you perhaps forgot to back up this Windows.old folder if you need.

Paul

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