Upgrading to 8.1 from 7

Wassili

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So I recently purchased Windows 8.1, and am planning to install it on to my 128 GB SSD. My current OS is Win 7 which is installed onto my 500 GB HDD. I had a few questions about the installation: when installing 8.1 to my SSD, will it:
1. Wipe everything on the SSD?
2. Delete the old Win 7 OS?

Thanks in advance.
 
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I would suggest making a mirror of win_7 because you may want to go back. Microsoft has pretty much dumped 8.1 and will do so with 7 soon. This means you will not receive patches and updates from microsoft leaving your pc unprotected. It won't wipe anything off of ssd unless you tell it to.

SethS

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I would suggest making a mirror of win_7 because you may want to go back. Microsoft has pretty much dumped 8.1 and will do so with 7 soon. This means you will not receive patches and updates from microsoft leaving your pc unprotected. It won't wipe anything off of ssd unless you tell it to.
 
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