Hi Donovansrb10,
If Eddy gives you some advice, you'd better listen to the man. He was the first one on this forum to point several things out to me, and I would never have become a malware fighter, wasn't it for Eddy's inspiration. And he is right, it is MS themselves saying: "Do not waste time on Vista, go directly to Windows7". And do not download the torrent version because that has inbuilt malware, but download the regular version from Windows.
You have such nice peripheral HD's now, huge, and comfortably priced, and put some security software on a big pendrive (some 12 GB) and work your DrWebCureIt, MBAM etc. from a usb (a clean one of course),
polonus