[Solved] Vista to 7 upgrade, clean viruses b4 upgrade?

Just wondering why you haven't cleaned the viruses? There are several good free anti-virus programs available.

Also, prior to doing a clean install, try and backup your non-infected data. Or at least the data that you'll need, as it will be gone once you complete the install.

-- Ryan
Windows Outreach Team

This pc had 310 infections in Malwarebytes quarantine, and many other problems. Rather than a virus-cleaning, looks like I will have to do a system recovery using the pre-made disks to get it clean. Is this what you mean when you say I need to do a clean install? I have never done an upgrade before.

So I would do a system recovery on Vista, then proceed with the Windows 7 upgrade? Please advise. Thanks very much.

That way would certainly work. You might have some other options that could save you that step.
What size hard drive do you have and how much free space is on it? Any other hard drives in the system?

Prescott_666, I went to the website you mentioned and read it. The article is thorough and sounds like just what I need. I will attempt this Monday and will get back to you all on the results.

Forgot to add that the 2nd partition shows that of the 11 GB of space, only 1.5 GB is free. There is 10 GB of some kind of data on this partition. Seems like whats on there may be a restore or recovery partition????? Does anyone agree? If this is the case, then we should format the 2nd partiton as well in to avoid possible compatibility issues? Help!

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