Upgrading from 32bit Win8 to 64bit. Anyway to keep my documents?

[AHashemi]

Hi
I have upgraded my gaming rig recently with 8 GB of ram. so i have to go for 64bit OS.
now is there anyway to keep some of my chosen documents like movies and photos etc while reinstalling? cuz i heard 32 to 64 bit needs a clean install.
currently i have one C partition only. I thought i can shrink a 150 GB partition and copy my files there and only format the C drive which has my apps and games and windows on it. so my files won't be lost.
is this theory possible in action?!

thanks in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

Save those files elsewhere and offline. Messing with the partitions (before or after), or reinstalling an OS, carries a much, much larger chance of fail than simply having those files elsewhere.

What you propose 'might' work. But what if it doesn't?

Applications will need to reinstalled in any case.

 

[Ijack]

You really should already have a copy of any documents, or other files, that you wish to retain on external media - an external hard drive is the quickest and easiest solution. Your hard disk could turn up its toes at any time and we really don't want to see you coming back here posting that your hard disk isn't working and how can you recover your precious files.

Buy an external drive - they are very cheap nowadays - and use Windows backup, or a similar program, to save a copy of your files whilst all is well. And make a point of updating that backup at regular intervals.

 

[AHashemi]

I know how much having backup of important files is necessary. I had a WD external hdd previously but suddenly it got problems and i lost lots of my files then.
so i'll wait to get an external hdd if there is no good way for this.

thanks