LOL. Well, ugrades are fine. You just need to prepare for them.
A piece of advice. The next time you get your machine set up the way you want it, make a complete backup of the whole hard drive so you can later restore it to that condition when you want.
It's a good idea to make a backup before doing anything major, too, so you can always get back where you started.
The more frequent the backups (aside from the initial one that you keep for restoration to the very beginning), the less recent work you will lose if it all comes crashing down.
A second hard drive, internal or external, is the perfect place to store an "image" of your main hard drive. All hard drives will fail. It's nice to be able to replace one, restore the image, and be back to normal in less than an hour. But you can keep at least the original one on DVD's or a BluRay disk. Most peoples' complete system will fit on a single BluRay disk (25 GB's).
Free drive backup software (imaging, cloning, and archiving):
Paragon Backup & Recovery (Recovery boot CD or USB key)
Macrium Reflect (Free)
O&O Disk Image Express
Easeus Todo Backup
Redo Backup & Recovery (Boot CD)
Comodo Time Machine (Complete system, files, programs, and settings restoration, but not "bare-metal" for failed drive)
Clonezilla Live (A bootable CD of Debian with Clonezilla.)
Drive Image XML
PING (Partimage is not Ghost) (Boot CD with option Clam Antivirus)
Partition Saving
Clonezilla
There are also many commercial products with more features.
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