Will my upgrade key work?

[Blongs]

I currently am dual booting Vista and Win7 Home Premium. My question is when I receive my activation key from Microsoft for Home Premium upgrade will I be able to just use that key and activate my current installation.

Also anybody with tips on how I can delete Vista from my computer without messing up my boot up. Win7 is on my c: drive and Vista on a separate hard drive.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[Zidane24]

I currently am dual booting Vista and Win7 Home Premium. My question is when I receive my activation key from Microsoft for Home Premium upgrade will I be able to just use that key and activate my current installation.

Also anybody with tips on how I can delete Vista from my computer without messing up my boot up. Win7 is on my c: drive and Vista on a separate hard drive.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

1st Question: There isn't a solid answer for that question yet but i theory you should be able to...if not than do a repair install on 7 and insert your key there...that might still work
@nd Question: You can format the Vista partition but you will have to probably do a startup repair with your 7 disc...if Vista was installed first and then 7

 

[matt_0978]

1st Question: There isn't a solid answer for that question yet but i theory you should be able to...if not than do a repair install on 7 and insert your key there...that might still work
@nd Question: You can format the Vista partition but you will have to probably do a startup repair with your 7 disc...if Vista was installed first and then 7

or download neowin's BCDEdit, remove Vista's boot entry. then right click Computer..Manage..Disk Management..Right Click on the space occupied by Vista..Delete Volume..Then either Expand 7's partition into the free space or format it.

 

[chuckr]

or download neowin's BCDEdit, remove Vista's boot entry. then right click Computer..Manage..Disk Management..Right Click on the space occupied by Vista..Delete Volume..Then either Expand 7's partition into the free space or format it.

I agree that the Boot-up logic should be accomplished first, removing Vista.

I'd use bcdedit, then Disk Management...

 

[masterB]

or download neowin's BCDEdit, remove Vista's boot entry. then right click Computer..Manage..Disk Management..Right Click on the space occupied by Vista..Delete Volume..Then either Expand 7's partition into the free space or format it.

 

[Blongs]

Thanks for all the great info. I do have BCDedit and I removed Vista and then deleted the partition but I still had to do a repair from Win7 disk. All is well now, Thank you.

 

[chuckr]

Thanks for all the great info. I do have BCDedit and I removed Vista and then deleted the partition but I still had to do a repair from Win7 disk. All is well now, Thank you.

Good to hear...

Can you answer just a few questions?

1. 'Partitions' implies 1 physical HDD, right?

2. You attempted W7 boot after fix, and she wouldn't boot?
Is this why the "...had to do a repair from DVD" ?

3. You used your installed W7 'BCDEdit', not the Neowin 'EasyBCD' DL ?

Thanks!
Your situation seemed similar to:
http://www.sevenforums.com/news/20489-perpetual-reboot-failed-win-7-upgrades-vista.html
in an "inverse" sort of way, but still:
(MBR/Bootsector/BCD-store functions.)

Chuck

 

[matt_0978]

Good to hear...

Can you answer just a few questions?

1. 'Partitions' implies 1 physical HDD, right?

a single fixed-disk, split up into 2 or more 'partitions' yes

2. You attempted W7 boot after fix, and she wouldn't boot?
Is this why the "...had to do a repair from DVD" ?

probly start-up repair (cka boot-up repair), not to be confused with repair-install

3. You used your installed W7 'BCDEdit', not the Neowin 'EasyBCD' DL ?

i would hope he used easyBCDedit, messing about with command-line bcdedit can be quite dangerous (well not dangerous but u get wot i mean? )

Thanks!
Your situation seemed similar to:
http://www.sevenforums.com/news/20489-perpetual-reboot-failed-win-7-upgrades-vista.html
in an "inverse" sort of way, but still:
(MBR/Bootsector/BCD-store functions.)

Chuck

Bold is mine

i must confess i meant easyBCDedit freely available from neosmart.net, it is basically a BCDedit.exe gui front-end, a similar tool for the power-user would be vistabootpro from vistabootpro.org. at $9.95 it is not free, but win 7 is fully supported plus they offer full tech-support via their online forums.

 

[chuckr]

Bold is mine

i must confess i meant easyBCDedit freely available from neosmart.net, it is basically a BCDedit.exe gui front-end, a similar tool for the power-user would be vistabootpro from vistabootpro.org. at $9.95 it is not free, but win 7 is fully supported plus they offer full tech-support via their online forums.

Thank you, but the questions were directed to "Blongs", the OP...

I was trying to find out his specific HW configuration, and
actions accomplished during his TS process.

I don't use tools for the 'power-user', and try to stick with the command-line stuff, like Microsoft does...

 

[Barman58]

Thank you, but the questions were directed to "Blongs", the OP...

I was trying to find out his specific HW configuration, and
actions accomplished during his TS process.

I don't use tools for the 'power-user', and try to stick with the command-line stuff, like Microsoft does...

Although I agree with your policy of using the simple command line tools "like Microsoft" this makes interesting reading ...



I wouldn't be at all suprised if a familiar GUI made it's way into windows 8 for editing the BCD

 

[chuckr]

Although I agree with your policy of using the simple command line tools "like Microsoft" this makes interesting reading ...

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I DLd EasyBCD after first install of RC-7100, all new to me at the time.
He said that my 'Boot sector' was not Vista-compatible, and said that it couldn't install until he 'fixed' it.

So I shut him down and deleted the files. It was all very easy.

I wouldn't be at all suprised if a familiar GUI made it's way into windows 8 for editing the BCD

Could be, but the other side of the coin is that the MS "Support Engineers" might lose money, if it worked well.
'Boot problems' should be 'good' for them.
OTOH, lotsa people could get into real trouble with this particular 'power-user' tool.
I'm sure MS will 'do the numbers' before deciding.

The BCD-store was 'new' with Vista, and they didn't put a GUI in the step-up to Win 7.
Just for 'the hell of it', I'd bet on no GUI in Windows 8...

Thanks for the post!
"Debugging the Windows Kernel" seems a bit deceptive here.
I'm sure they mean making a debug 'option' in the BCD-store.