Windows 7 - Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

Hello Valory, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Since you will be doing a clean install with OPTION ONE, then you will not need to do anything else to the hard drive since you will be formating the drive or partition for Windows 7 during the installation. Normally the installation DVD should boot from it when you press a key at the "Press a key to boot from CD drive" message the displays briefly (few seconds) at boot.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, Brink. What procedure needs to be followed if I need to reinstall 7 in the future? (I haven't taken the plunge yet!)

Valory,

Well, hopefully you will not need to reinstall or at least often. You can use the same method in the tutorial to reinstall it again though.

I'm having a problem, like Ballie had.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade on a blank hard drive, all prepared to use Method 3 (I have licenses for both XP Pro and Vista HP).
I chose custom install and let Windows format the hard drive.
I went thru the install, and when I entered my product key ( I had made sure to uncheck "Automatically activate Windows when I'm online"), it said the Product Key was not valid.
Again, this isn't the activation process, this is when you first enter your Product Key.
I can't get past this prompt to my desktop, so I can't attempt the reghack/rearm method.
Any ideas?
Unlike Ballie, I don't have another key I can use to get to my desktop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Boony, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You will need a valid Windows 7 Ultimate product key number to type in at that point. If you are using one, then double check to make sure you did not have a typo, or mistakenly type 0 (number) instead of a o (letter).

Hope this helps,
Shawn

thank you very much it was easy to follow and to understand got my avtivatrf in no time cheers mate

You're welcome Devilians, and welcome to Seven Forums.

HI
I am located in canada and the windows 7 academic edition is listed
Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional UPGRADE (32-bit & 64-bit)

Microsoft Office for Students - The Ultimate Steal

1- is the academic edition consider retail or OEM?
2- if i buy this edition can i still do a clean install with the upgrade?

It looks like this would be a retail upgrade version as I see it, I do not think it would be OEM.

Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional UPGRADE (32-bit & 64-bit)
$95.00*

Yes, there are some tutorials here how to do clean install with upgrade version.

Thnx, installing on my vista pc on Fri