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| 18 Nov 2009 | #1 |
| | OEM Installation Since the Win 7 OEM is normally installed on a blank HD, does it give an option to format the HD or should this be done before installing the OEM disk? |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #2 |
| | the installation will give you the options to format, delete and create partitions |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #3 |
| | I always format before installing a new OS... there are several third party apps available to do this... Good luck with your install.. |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #4 |
| | Thanks for both of your replies. I am about ready to give the installation a shot. |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #5 |
| | it took me 40 mins lol i had win 7 and i was slow and fed up with slow slow sloe and crashing. so luckily i got OEM version and i just custom install. deleted all partitions and installed Windows 7 on a new partition.  FRESH CLEAN install |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #6 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Brian6121990  it took me 40 mins lol i had win 7 and i was slow and fed up with slow slow sloe and crashing. so luckily i got OEM version and i just custom install. deleted all partitions and installed Windows 7 on a new partition. FRESH CLEAN install |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #7 |
| | Yes you can do all of that during the install but do you not want to keep the data on D ? sorry just a bit confused on that. |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #8 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ba5ik Yes you can do all of that during the install but do you not want to keep the data on D ? sorry just a bit confused on that. |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #9 |
| | N/M I thought it was personal files(pics, mp3s...) delete away  |
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| 18 Nov 2009 | #10 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ba5ik N/M I thought it was personal files(pics, mp3s...) delete away |
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