Windows 7: Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

You're most welcome.

Ok well got the new system up and running. I ran into the upgrade error. So I did what the tutorial said to do in the CMD prompt and its now activated.



Thanks a bunch guys. You saved me a chuck of change.

You're most welcome Raven. Thank you for posting back with your results.

Shawn,
The Paul Thurott link now produces a 404 error.

Do you happen know which particular blog of his wherein he documented doing a clean install from upgrade media?

Do you have any references I can use verifying that the upgrade install is legal?

I've got a chap who is as hard-headed as I am which what drove me to looking for the article from Thurott.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

thanks,
karl

Hello Karl,

Here's a link to another post of his that's basically for the same thing in Method #2 there. We've used the same method here as well. I just provided a REG file to make it easier to do instead.

Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media

As long as the user meets the requirements in the red Warning box at the top of this tutorial, then it is perfectly legal. Microsoft left this option available for their customers that meet these requirements so that they will not have to say install Vista first, then upgrade to Windows 7.

Shawn,
The only shortcoming there is that the blogpost is not the full writeup which I had seen from him before.

I'm trying to gather as much info as possible so I can fire a real volley at this guy.

Many thanks,
karl

Yeah, it seems that he has removed the original article from his site that I linked to in the tutorial. I Googled for the original article as well, but it appears to be gone now. The link above is the closest I could find for it where he references this.

I found it!

Check this link out:
Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media

LOL, that's the same article that I linked to in my post above.

somewhere i must have goofed before, because what i got was a very abbreviated version.

Wonder how I managed to do it? Oh well, all's well that ends will.