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Upgrade Vista ->Windows 7 : Changing Language
I am living in Beijing, China at present and am about to buy a new Lenovo Ideapad Laptop. This comes with Windows Vista Home Premium Preinstalled (Chinese Version). I then intend to use the Free Windows 7 Upgrade Program to acquire Eglish language media
It is clear in Microsoft's documentation that this is not a supported upgrade path.
However, assuming I can get Lenovo to provide the English Language Windows 7 upgrade media, I should be able to do a clean install as per Doing a Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version and Paul Thurrot's Method.
In fact this would be the method for achieving any unsupported upgrade path, eg:
Vista 32 -> 7 64
Vista 64 -> 7 32
Chinese Vista -> English 7 :)
Can anyone confirm that this is true, particularly for the language upgrade.
Dave
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Further reading has led me to believe that this is definitely possible. Check out the bottom line of the chart image:
I've also checked that Lenovo FREE Windows® 7 Upgrade Program asks you both which language and architecture your previous machine is running. So a white lie about having (wanting) the English 64bit Vista should net me the relevant Windows 7 upgrade disks :)Upgrading Windows Vista from one language (e.g. English) to Windows 7 in a different language (e.g. French), requires a custom install.
I'll post once more when I can confirm this on my new machine.
Last edited by davient; 28 Oct 2009 at 00:39. Reason: Updated Info