How to upgrade to Win 7 Home Premium without Vista

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I had a fully activated and legal copy of Windows Vista running on my computer 3 months ago. I formatted my disk to install Windows 7, thinking I will activate with the upgrade key I bought.

How do I upgrade now?
Please tell me there is way to do it from within Windows 7. I have installed all the programs I want and have it running exactly the way I want it.

Don't tell me I need to clean install Win 7 again?
 
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Windows 7 RTM 16385Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz2GB RAMNVIDIA 8600M GT 256MB
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Asus G1S-A1 Notebook
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jackdawg said:
I had a fully activated and legal copy of Windows Vista running on my computer 3 months ago. I formatted my disk to install Windows 7, thinking I will activate with the upgrade key I bought.

How do I upgrade now?
Please tell me there is way to do it from within Windows 7. I have installed all the programs I want and have it running exactly the way I want it.

Don't tell me I need to clean install Win 7 again?
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What version of Win7 did you install?

If it's the RC then you can do a clean install with the upgrade version. It has to be activated first.

This will be confirmed soon when people will probably try every variation and post what can be done.
 
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Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64Intel Core i5-3570K 4.6GHz8GB (2X4GB) DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengeance CL8 1.5vSapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X OC 1GB DDR5
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PC/Desktop
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76~2.0
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Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
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Intel Core i5-3570K 4.6GHz
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X UD3H, f18
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Samsung 840Pro 128GB SSD,
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Corsair HX650W
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Cooler Master Storm Scout
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Logitech Wave
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CM Sentinel
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Opera Next
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Haswell laptop: HP Envy 17t-j, i7-4700MQ, GeForce 740M 2GB DDR3, 17.3" Full HD 1920x1080, 16GB RAM, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB, 1TB Hitachi 7200 HDD,
Desktop: eSATA ports,
External eSATA Seagate 500GB SATA2 7200rpm,
External WD USB 500GB
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I had Windows Vista Home Premium (OEM) on my notebook.
I formatted my C:
Installed Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade

Activated with Win 7 Upgrade Key.
It activated and fully works now!!!!!!!!!

No need to reinstall with Windows Vista HP and upgrade.
Completely speculating, but it may be because I have an OEM partition before my C: with the Windows Vista setup files.
 

My Computer My Computer

At a glance

Windows 7 RTM 16385Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz2GB RAMNVIDIA 8600M GT 256MB
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Asus G1S-A1 Notebook
OS
Windows 7 RTM 16385
CPU
Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz
Motherboard
Intel Mobile PM965 Chipset
Memory
2GB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA 8600M GT 256MB
Sound Card
High Def Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Embedded
Hard Drives
Hitachi 160GB S4ATA HDD 5400 RPM
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