Advanced question about how to make a bootable ISO file on DVD to install win7?

WARNING; GIANT WALL OF TEXT.

it's not all that complicated of a question, really.. as long as you have the windows 7 .iso you should be able to burn it too a disk using poweriso

(magic iso was supposed to be the full version of poweriso but you have too pay money for it to work fully, or something, so nobody liked it)

as far as a full re-format there's good news.. you can download a program called "partition wizard (home edition)" and it can take (x)gigs (peferably like 20+) from the space left-over on your HDD and make a separate partition on your HD, and when you install windows 7, you can install it on partition 'd' instead of the full re-format onto 'c' drive, thus not loosing any files

(i did this myself, when i upgraded from windows 7 ultimate 32bit, to win7 ultimate 64bit)

it's a bit complicated with a couple steps but it's all pretty intuitive

step 1; run program isolate about 20-50 gigs to install windows 7 on

step 2; install windows 7 on the unallocated space

step 3; run program again to make the partition with windows 7 bigger (for optional later steps)

(when you boot from a partition on any ONE HD it sets the one you're booting on currently into your 'c' drive, boot win7 on c drive, then vista would be on d, boot vista when win7 is installed, then win7 would be on d drive)

step 4; run the partition program again, and this time allocate as much as you want to the windows7 drive

step 5; copy all files you want from 'd'(vista) drive onto 'c'(win7)

the reason you'd want to do this is JUST INCASE your windows 7 has some gnarly virus, you still have a version of windows to fall back on, because when you install windows from a disk, I'm pretty sure it's doesn't automatically make a recovery drive, and what better recovery drive than a diffrent version of windows?

The upgrade disk they'll send you will give you the option to do a custom install - that's a full install of 7. Just put the disk in the drive (you don't have to boot with it) and when you get the upgrade or custom option, choose custom. It gives you a clean install with a folder of your existing files (C:\Windows.old). If you don't want any of that, just delete the entire folder. No need to burn a disk, struggle to make it bootable, etc.