I hope I picked the right forum for this question. I recently had the experience of having my Windows 7 Home Premium OS have a verification problem a year after buying the computer. (Forum link below) http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/genuinewindows7/thread/06dd95b2-4f59-43dc-9b77-c79a6412ba72 I backed up all my “pertinent” data to USB network storage and purchased a new copy of windows 7 Professional 64bit (not yet installed). I would like to reformat and do a clean install. Would it be possible to install the Windows 7 Professional and at the same time save the Home Premium (and all it’s data) to another partition? I have a relatively new Dell Inspiron N7010 with a 451 GB hard Drive which I am only using 47 GB, so I have plenty of room. I looked into trying the “Windows Image” backup, but Win Home Premium does not have the option of backing up to NAS. (and going third party software is a hassle) I thought about a dual boot because there are some games my wife likes which will probably not work on a 64 bit OS, but….in the long run I really don’t need the old “unverified” Windows Home Premium. So in other words, can I save my current partition as another drive like “G” which would be easily available on “My Computer” from the start menu? It would sure be a lot easier. Now I realize that having everything on one hard drive defeats the purpose of backing up,. but this is just to get me through the initial OS switch. With time I will diversify my backup. Chrisl9155

A solution has been found, thanks close this thread chrisl9155

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