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Sorry but this is confusing as written. What registry hack is required?
If the OP owns/has a qualifying product, they're eligible for the upgrade and no "hacks" are required - Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
Sorry but this is confusing as written. What registry hack is required?
If the OP owns/has a qualifying product, they're eligible for the upgrade and no "hacks" are required - Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
Read the first paragraph of this tutorial I posted earlier for you.
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
See option 3
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
He may or may not run need to do it, depending on what method he pursues.
Only if the HD is new or cleaned is one of the workarounds from the above tutorial required.
This is because the installer when booted or run looks for an installed OS and if it sees it will pass a flag allowing the use of Upgrade version key, even if user goes on to use Custom>Drive options to delete and repartition.
If installer sees no underlying OS it rejects Upgrade key so leave the key blank upfront then after install do one of the workarounds given in tutorial to activate on a new or cleaned HD.
This is provided as a convenience for those who replace, wipe, repartition their HD's or don't want to reinstall the qualifying OS - which in the case of XP may not even install any longer to modern SATA HD's.
Option 3 in tutorial is easiest - using the Registry edit only takes minutes.
Last edited by gregrocker; 10 Dec 2011 at 15:40.
Got it, but I've always used option 4.
Double Installing Windows 7
Note
This option is the same that was used to do a clean install of a upgrade copy of Vista. It's more work, but if the options above did not work for you, then this should.
1. Do a clean install of your upgrade Windows 7 at boot without checking the Automatically activate Windows when I'm online box during the installation process, and do not activate Windows 7 or install any Windows Updates when finished with this clean install.
2. When finished, do a inplace "upgrade" install with your upgrade Windows 7 installation disk from within the just now finished clean install of Windows 7 from step 1.
3. When the installation is completely finished from step 2, then manually activate Windows 7 with your product key number. You can now also install Windows Updates.
Thanks for all the help guys, i shall now mark as solved.