...you don't need to reinstall windows. You'll just need to reinstall drivers. and windows will probably give a message about too much hardware was changed and force you to reactivate windows within 30 or so days.
Plug and play will find most of the drivers, but motherboard and videodrivers you'll most likely have to do yourself. Suggest writing down what all your drive letters go to, before upgrading.... and designate them the exact same way, after the upgrade. Some programs record what drive letter they installed from and only use that drive letter to access the CD-rom. And just about all programs need to be in their same drive letter to work... 'causeof windows registery. All drive letter can be change in windows disk manager,except the one that is considered the master boot, which is the C drive in most cases.
Disk Manager? I don't really know where it's hidden, in the windows pullouts... but type: compmgmt.msc in the run menu of windows and select disk manager in the tree thing. That program is all you really need to manage your drives and partitions
And a word of advice.... I don't know about Vista.... but my WinXP homewill not format a SATA drive during installation of windows. If you want windows to be on a SATA drive, you'll have to format it throughsome3rd party system disk program, or thru window, first; and not allow window's setup to do anything with format involved with it's installation. From my experience Windows setup always gives errorsin trying toformat Sata drives. Formats fine within windows... windows setup just has problems with it. (maybe they fixed that on newer installation disks of windows, I don't know.... but my disk has problems with formating Sata Harddrives.)
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