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Windows 7 - Able to bypass Upgrade to do a fresh install?
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| 10-22-2009 | #1 |
| | Able to bypass Upgrade to do a fresh install? Hi, guys.  Thought I'd come back to see if you guys found a way to bypass the upgrade and do a fresh install of Win 7 with an "upgrade" installer/DVD. Any luck? Or, did Microsoft make it impossible to do? Thanks and good luck!!! (waiting til my evaluation license expires) |
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| 10-22-2009 | #2 |
| | Um, god I would hope so. If not, how are you ever suppost to reformat if your HD gets currupted beyond human repair? |
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| 10-22-2009 | #3 |
| | People have confirmed that you can take the upgrade media, with or without anything installed on the hard drive and you can install "clean" Windows 7 and it will activate no problems. |
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| 10-22-2009 | #4 |
| | yeah, when selecting the drive you want to install on, click advanced options, then click the format button (I saw all of this in a video, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong), something like that. |
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| 10-22-2009 | #5 |
| | Of course you can do a clean install. It is the license you are upgrating by buying an "upgrate version", NOT the c:\. If you upgrate from XP, then all you _can_ do is a clean install, but if you are on Vista, and Vista and 7 are same language, then you can upgrade your system without a clean install (not recommended though) |
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| 10-22-2009 | #6 |
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| 10-23-2009 | #7 |
| | Glad to hear it's possible. Thanks! |
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