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I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and it seems all is well except it said I could upgrade to Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise. I have Home Premium. Am I out of luck?

Thank you!
 

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If you currently have Vista business, Ultimate or Enterprise, technically you cannot upgrade to 7 HP, but with the same DVD we will show you how to do a clean install.
 

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squidgy said:
I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and it seems all is well except it said I could upgrade to Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise. I have Home Premium. Am I out of luck?

Thank you!
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I see that you have Vista Business.

See the Upgrade Matrix:

http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png

You can only do an upgrade-in-place to Professional or Ultimate, considering only the OS versions that are sold at retail. (Enterprise is not. It's similar to Ultimate; I believe that it mainly lacks the language packs.)

However, Vista Business qualifies for the use of an upgrade license. You'd have to do a custom (clean) install, which means that you'd have to re-install all programs that required installation. (That's most software.)
 

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You can not upgrade from Vista Business to Windows 7 Home P.
 

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theog said:
You can not upgrade from Vista Business to Windows 7 Home P.
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Yep, it will wiser to go to Pro directly, some features might be enjoyable...
 

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To clarify: You cannot do an in-place Upgrade to Home Premium from Business, but you can clean install using the Upgrade version: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

When you run or boot the Upgrade DVD, it scans the HD to see Vista then passes a flag to allow Upgrade version key - even if you then go on with booted DVD to use Custom>Drive Options to delete, repartition and/or format.

If you run the installer from Vista, it will save a windows.old folder with all of the Vista files in it so you can retrieve any before deleting it. However, this does not replace the need to back up all of your files first for a clean install.
 
squidgy said:
I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and it seems all is well except it said I could upgrade to Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise. I have Home Premium. Am I out of luck?

Thank you!
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Since you have the Home Premium, there is no sense to buy the Professional. The HP has all you are going to need. Just do a clean install, it takes about 45 minutes. You will have to reinstall all of your programs, so you need to back them up first. It is not that time consuming to do it. A clean install is good to do so that all the "trash" gets out of your system. Good Luck
 

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Oops..he's got already H.P (readed to fast)...:o
 

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Asus P8Z77-V LE PLUS
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G.Skill "Ares" DDR3 PC3-12800 - 1600MHz (16Gb)
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Asus Dual-RX480-O4G
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Creative Sound Blaster Z w/5.1 sound system
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Asus IPS 23"
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16/9
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Internal:
500Go Sata 6Gb/s (x2)
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In Win C 900W Series 80+ Platinum
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I agree with those who said to do a clean installation of HP, if you find you're going back to Vista to do things not available in HP (I really doubt this) you could always buy an anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Pro.
 

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Laptop:Alienware M17x, Q9100 CPU, 8Gb RAM, 1920x1200 WUXGA LCD driven by 4870's in CrossFireX, Bl
Thanks for all the quick responses :D

I guess it was a language thing with my original question. When I went to use the Upgrade Advisor, I thought it was going to look at my hardware and tell me whether it was sufficient to run 7. Apparently, what it's concerned with is not hardware but OSes - as in from what to what. Emphasis on upgrade not advisor, so to speak. So I ended up with an upgrade, not a clean install. I was wondering where all the hdd space went until I saw the windows.old folder. Also, I used the Dell re-install disk that came with the computer.

So I guess I'll do it again. When I had Dell support on the phone and had to reinstall HP over the previous HP installation, it did not seem concerned that there was a previous OS installed, it just did a reinstall of 7 and nothing about formatting the disk. Should I format the disk first and then let it go ahead and do a clean install?
 

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Dell Latitude D830
OS
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
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Intel Core Two Duo T9300 2.5GHz
Memory
4GB
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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140
Sound Card
Integrated High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays
15.4"
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
No need to really format the disk if you have the required space Windows 7 will install there, format it if you don't have anything there you need.
 

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DELL XPS Studio 435T
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Vista 64 Ultimate, Windows 7 64 Ultimate, Ubuntu 9.10
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DELL provided
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18 Gb Tri-Channel 1066
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ATI 5970 2048 Mb
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Vizio 37" HD-TV
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1.5 Tb HDD
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Logitech Performance K350 Wireless
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Laptop:Alienware M17x, Q9100 CPU, 8Gb RAM, 1920x1200 WUXGA LCD driven by 4870's in CrossFireX, Bl
squidgy said:
Thanks for all the quick responses :D

I guess it was a language thing with my original question. When I went to use the Upgrade Advisor, I thought it was going to look at my hardware and tell me whether it was sufficient to run 7. Apparently, what it's concerned with is not hardware but OSes - as in from what to what. Emphasis on upgrade not advisor, so to speak. So I ended up with an upgrade, not a clean install. I was wondering where all the hdd space went until I saw the windows.old folder. Also, I used the Dell re-install disk that came with the computer.

So I guess I'll do it again. When I had Dell support on the phone and had to reinstall HP over the previous HP installation, it did not seem concerned that there was a previous OS installed, it just did a reinstall of 7 and nothing about formatting the disk. Should I format the disk first and then let it go ahead and do a clean install?
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Back up your files. Boot from the Windows 7 CD. It will ask you if you want to do a clean install (I don't remember the exact wording, but you will know). It will then format your drive for you and install Win 7. It takes about 45 minutes and you need to stay by your PC as you will have to click on OK a few times. Things will go smooth. Good Luck.
 

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Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
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Intel Core i3-2120 3.30Ghz
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Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 Socket H2 ATX
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Kingston 4 GB DDR3 1333 mhz
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AMD Radeon HD6670
Sound Card
Sound Blaster Audigy SE 24-Bit
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Asus VE228
Screen Resolution
1440 X 900
Hard Drives
OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB Sata 3 SSD ==
Kingston SH103/S3 120 G Hyper X 120 GB SSD ==
Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Green 7200 RPM ==
PSU
Corsair CX600M == 600 Watt
Case
NZXT Apollo - Silver with Clear Side Panel
Cooling
Three 120 mm Fans
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Microsoft Natural 4000
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Microsoft Custom Optical 3000
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AT&T Fiber Optic Wireless Network
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Microsoft Security Essentials
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Chrome
Other Info
120 mm Blue LED Fan -- Three Blue LED Lazer Light Sticks
Boot the WIn7 DVD, choose Custom install, then Drive Options to repartition if you want (Delete>Create), then Format the partitions before installing to first partition.

To get the cleanest possible install, I would delete all of the partitions including the useless Dell OEM partition since those Dell utilities will not work in a clean reinstall and it can interfere with Win7. The Recovery Partition can go if you have or have made your Recovery DIsks.

There are screenshots here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

The installer is mostly driver-complete, with newer arriving quickly via Optional Windows Updates. Any drivers then missing can be found in the Dell Support Downloads webpage for your model or a drivers disk if you have one.
 
gregrocker said:
Boot the WIn7 DVD, choose Custom install, then Drive Options to repartition if you want (Delete>Create), then Format the partitions before installing to first partition.
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Worked fine. Much faster than XP.
 

My Computer

Computer type
Laptop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell Latitude D830
OS
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
CPU
Intel Core Two Duo T9300 2.5GHz
Memory
4GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140
Sound Card
Integrated High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays
15.4"
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
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