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| Vista Ultimate 64bit 39 posts | How to do clean install Windows 7 upgrade on new drive I own Windows Vista 64bit, and have ordered Windows 7 Professional 64bit upgrade. How do I do a clean installation of Windows 7 on a new hard drive? Thanks for your help – IM |
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| 18 Oct 2009 | |
| ME/XP/Vista/Win7 10,432 posts uk Hampshire | |
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| Windows Seven x64 442 posts Idaho | If you install the upgrade disk on a NEW hard drive it will not work..According to Microsoft Website..(Microsoft Store) Quote: If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in -place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista). Hope this Helps... |
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| 18 Oct 2009 | |
| Windows 7 Profesional 64bit 62 posts Carol Stream, IL | 
Quote: Originally Posted by Ryan2320  If you install the upgrade disk on a NEW hard drive it will not work..According to Microsoft Website..(Microsoft Store) Quote: If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in -place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista). Hope this Helps... If I understand you correctly, the only way to do this is to install Vista first and then upgrade... There is no other way? I was kind of hoping to avoid the Vista install. |
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| 18 Oct 2009 | |
| Windows 7 Ulti. x64 1,823 posts KANSAS |
Quote: Originally Posted by Imageman I own Windows Vista 64bit, and have ordered Windows 7 Professional 64bit upgrade. How do I do a clean installation of Windows 7 on a new hard drive? Thanks for your help – IM Upgrade Install with Windows 7 Hope that this may work for you. |
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| 18 Oct 2009 | |
| Win7 x 6 PC's 36,545 posts California, Florida, Boston | You can install the Upgrade to a formatted second hard drive you connect to your p.c. Just start the upgrade from the XP/Vista hard drive and have it install to the second hard drive. No other drives should be attached. When the upgrade is finished, remove the XP/Vista hard drive and plug the new Windows 7 upgrade hard drive into that cable and it should start up. Otherwise, run start up repair until it installs the bootloader. |
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| windows7 RC 14 posts | Hey guys, If you're interested I did some detailed testing of this tonight. Please see my post here: Doing a Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version |
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| Windows 7 1 posts | A simple option If you wipe out the hard drive or get a new drive for a clean install you will run into problems with the online registration. There are various work around for this. However, as an owner of Vista 64, you can do a clean install of Windows 7 using the Windows 7 Upgrade disk and then use a simple registry edit to allow registration: How to register windows 7 upgrade |
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