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After 5 Days of using Windows 8 on an old Intel Pentium D, it has completely grown on me and I loved it until I got so annoyed with the resolution problem that I wanted to go back to Windows 7. Now that I have a fully Windows 8 compatible PC, I want to go back to it even though I am sitting comfortably in Windows 7's loving paws.

Question:

I have Left 4 Dead by noSteam installed on another partition in my PC (not the Windows install partition). It isn't detected as a program by Windows but it is since it wrote itself in a directory with all the Registry Keys and what not. My question is, will I be able to save it if I upgrade to Windows 8? More importantly will I be able to use it just as I did in 7? I have no important documents at hand and I have backed up all my songs in a flash drive but I can't re-download it because of my low bandwidth (1 MBPS) so its the only big thing I want to keep but am leaving in the Windows 8 Upgrade's hands.

Other Stuff I want to keep:

Virtualbox (with all my VMs and snapshots)

Office 2013 (although I don't mind 2010, 2013 feels more adequate)

The game is on the same HDD but in a different partition (E:\) while the Windows Installation is also in a different partition (C:\)

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If you use the "upgrade" method, you probably can. But if you choose clean install, then no.

Virtualbox will have to be reinstalled even if you upgrade. As long as things remain as how they were, all your VMs (for sure) and Snapshots (not sure) shouldn't be effected.

My Office 2010 stayed installed and registered after upgrade.

But as always, clean install is recommended over upgrade. :)

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No idea. You do probably need an already developed / installed (with all the stuff) VM to do that.

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My question is, will I be able to save it if I upgrade to Windows 8?

It's better to stick with Windows 7 than perform an upgrade to Windows 8 - you lose some path-breaking performance advantages.

Migration to Windows 8 should be through a clean install, not upgrade via over-writing Windows 8.

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My question is, will I be able to save it if I upgrade to Windows 8?

It's better to stick with Windows 7 than perform an upgrade to Windows 8 - you lose some path-breaking performance advantages.

Migration to Windows 8 should be through a clean install, not upgrade via over-writing Windows 8.

Well, the move was successful but what are the disadvantages of an upgrade over a clean install?

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One cannot employ GPT & (full-blooded UEFI.)

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All defects & aberrations from previous installations would also be carried forward.

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