What will happen to FD in this situtation

I believe that this might simplify my previous thread started yesterday:

Ok, when I obtained my new pc two years ago with WinXP Sp3, the very first thing that I did was install FirstDefense Classic. The second thing that I did was create a Snapshot with the fresh, clean, pristine WinXP: the only two things in that Snapshot are WinXP and FirstDefense.

I want to make a copy of that Snapshot so I now have two clean Snapshots so I can doing the following without losing one of them:

If I were to go to that simple, clean snapshot with only XP and FD, and install Win7 Upgrade Home Premium 32-bit, what would happen to FirstDefense? Would it be removed from that Snapshot and need to be reinstalled onto Win7 which has now replaced and, I assume, wiped out the XP in that one Snapshot? If so, would it also be removed from my entire system, all Snapshots, and need to be reinstalled everywhere?

Second and last question for now: Do I need to do anything special in order to get Win7 to install correctly in this scenario? By that I mean, are any hidden 100mb partitions going to screw me up, anything special need to be done to the MBR? Is it as simple as just installing Win7 on top of the XP Snapshot? I understand that if it works, XP would be wiped out since Win7 automatically does a "clean" install on top of XP.

Thanks to all for your patience,
Acadia

 

Hi Acadia,

I would do the following:
1. export the xp snapshot to an archive.
2. completly uninstall fd-isr.
3. upgrade from xp to 7 (this is actually a clean install and not a real upgrade).
4. in windows 7 reinstall fd-isr.
5. import the xp from the archive to a new snapshot.

Panagiotis

 

Thanks, a gazillion, pandlouk! Now, I should have version 3.31.223 in order for this to work, correct?

Acadia

 

You 're welcome.

Version 3.31.223 should work fine but why not use the last one 3.32.235?

Panagiotis

 

I am still using XP but know that before long will have to make the move to 7. I would love to continue using FD but thought you needed to follow some fairly elaborate procedure to make it work in 7?