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Its very clever. When you insert the Win 7 disc, either to boot from or at the desktop of your OS, the installer 'sniffs out ' any and all evidence of the underlying OS. The results.....yes there is evidence, or no there is not...is stored in Ram and this happens at the beginning of the install process, not the end like Vista. It allows you to partition and format the drive and still pass activation. All this works without any 'hack' etc.
Can it be fooled.....yes. If you have a virgin system that has never ever seen Vista or XP and if you partitiion /format before booting the install, activation will fail. And so it should as we are dealing with 'Upgrade Media' and we can't blame MS for wanting to make sure the install is licensed correctly.