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Vista/Seven OEM confusion?
G'day,
This is the situation : my wife has a Gateway (Acer?) laptop that originally came with pre-installed OEM Vista. At the time of purchase you could register and get a free Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade disk in the post. I did that, and upgraded from this disk. Everything worked fine, no problems, everything is running well. Windows 7 is shown as OEM.
However, in the event that I need to reinstall from scratch (there is a Vista? recovery partition on the hard disk) how would I go about that?
Would I:
1. Recover back to Vista, and then
2. Upgrade again to Windows 7 using the upgrade media disk?
I image her laptop on occasion uisng Macrium, so perhaps the easiest would be to restore from the Macrium image, if I needed too?
What do you think? Is there an easier way to get a "clean reinstall" of 7 without having to spend time in Vista world first?
Regards,
Golden