Can I upgrade Win 7 RC to Win 7 using $99 upgrade?

[quidpro]

I've got a laptop which only has Win 7 RC installed, no dual boot of anything else. Can this be "upgraded" using the current offers, or will it need to have a full retail version? (The laptop came with Vista Basic installed so I wouldn't be able to upgrade with that original config anyway.)

Sorry if this has already been covered.

 

[Dzomlija]

I've got a laptop which only has Win 7 RC installed, no dual boot of anything else. Can this be "upgraded" using the current offers, or will it need to have a full retail version? (The laptop came with Vista Basic installed so I wouldn't be able to upgrade with that original config anyway.)

Sorry if this has already been covered.

No.

Sorry to be so blunt, but you just cannot upgrade from any BETA or RC version. You'll have to purchase a full version when the time comes, and perform a clean install. This is by design.

 

[sup3rsprt]

lol that's a good question but I don't think it will work. The RC version is still Windows 7 after all, so I don't think it will qualify for upgrade (because you never purchased it).

The laptop came with Vista Basic installed.

Sure, you can upgrade from Vista though.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Oops I may be wrong, sorry. You said Home Basic.

 

[marsx1984]

why not from vista basic?

 

[sup3rsprt]

Because Dzomlija said so?

Personally, I think it might just work. If you have vista basic on your computer, install the upgrade advisor and see for yourself.

 

[quidpro]

I might buy one of each (Home and Pro upgrades) anyway...I've got more than one pc around to use them on. I wouldn't think there would be a way to do it but thought I'd ask, heh. I'll probably just try it to see what happens...just for giggles.

In regard to the Vista Basic questions...Vista Basic doesn't count as anything, so an upgrade is not possible. Basically, Basic is less than XP, heh.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

If your laptop came with Vista Home Basic preinstalled then you should be able to upgrade from Vista Home Basic, to 7 Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate.

You'll likely need to reinstall Vista Home Basic though.


Starter is the one that is not upgradable, I believe.

 

[quidpro]

Also, I've run the upgrade advisor from within this Win 7 RC install...just to see what it would say. It goes through the motions and explains hardware issues but doesn't recommend a specific upgrade path the way it did when I ran it on another machine with vista home premium installed. (It suggested Win 7 home premium at the end of its run)

 

[quidpro]

If your laptop came with Vista Home Basic preinstalled then you should be able to upgrade from Vista Home Basic, to 7 Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate.

Really? I was sure that you could only go from Vista Home Premium to 7 Home Premium...Vista Business to 7 Professional...etc.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Really? I was sure that you could only go from Vista Home Premium to 7 Home Premium...Vista Business to 7 Professional...etc.

I am sure its something like this;

Vista Home Basic > 7 Home Basic/Premium/Ultimate
Vista Home Premium > 7 Home Premium/Ultimate
Vista Ultimate > 7 Ultimate

 

[quidpro]

I see. I think the "free upgrade" offer info going around is what confused me. Those free upgrade to Win 7 don't apply to new systems installed with Vista Home Basic (which OEMs don't seem to do anymore anyway). But that doesn't mean that you can't upgrade from Vista Home Basic to 7 Home Premium. It does look like it will be possible after searching around for more info just now.

 

[ciucca]

I think that people have posted that you will be able to do a clean install by first installing without the product key, so you get the 30 day evaluation, then you can do an upgrade from there.

If this works then I don't think it matters what you owned before as long as you do a clean installation.

 

[andythecurefan]

I think that people have posted that you will be able to do a clean install by first installing without the product key, so you get the 30 day evaluation, then you can do an upgrade from there.

If this works then I don't think it matters what you owned before as long as you do a clean installation.

exactly!

 

[YupYup]

I've got a laptop which only has Win 7 RC installed, no dual boot of anything else. Can this be "upgraded" using the current offers, or will it need to have a full retail version? (The laptop came with Vista Basic installed so I wouldn't be able to upgrade with that original config anyway.)

Sorry if this has already been covered.

No.

Sorry to be so blunt, but you just cannot upgrade from any BETA or RC version. You'll have to purchase a full version when the time comes, and perform a clean install. This is by design.

I have links to two sources from microsoft here that say otherwise.

 

[grouchpunk08]

As long as you have vista installed, or a vista disk, you can do a upgrade to the same version of win7 from vista. And you can do a clean install from the disk, without clean installing and then activating, the upgrade doesnt necesarrily mean you have to do an upgrade, it means you had vista before. vista made you put in the xp disk if xp wasnt installed and then it did a clean install of vista and all was good.