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Upgrade disk installs to formatted HDD!
After believing all of the laborious explanations from "experts" on MS Technet why Upgrade disks must be started from the qualified activated OS, I have just installed a newly-arrived Win7 Premium upgrade disk to a formatted HDD with no other OS present which has activated itself. This is being reported by others in Doing a Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
Others may have their ideas of what this means. The only thing I can come up with is that MS has shipped full retail product keys with Upgrades, or something is malfunctioning in the qualifying OS-activation-read process from boot (if there ever was one) so that the installer is reading old activation code of a underlying formatted XP/Vista/RC from boot on the disk.
Anyone else have a theory?
This would mean that Upgrade is effectively the same as Retail? WOW!
Last edited by gregrocker; 22 Oct 2009 at 22:10.