Clean Install Windows 7

Have to say conrifmed here as well.

Installed this weekend. Wiped XP Pro 32 Bit and installed 64 Bit W7. No problems, found all drivers easily.

D.

this is the most important thread on the forums i reckon due to all the information on
windows 7 and how to do a proper installation and making sure its working fine..

thanks for all the great useful info

I did a clean install of W7 on a machine that previously ran Vista. To have a back-up I decided to invest some money in a new HD and install W7 there.

This all went fine, just as in your post, but it failed the last step: validation. During validation it was reported that the product key was invalid. I checked with MS Support and they bluntly put the blame on me: how could I expect an upgrade version to work on a new disk. It should be clear to anybody that you first would have to re-install Vista and then run the update.

I appealed this support answer at MS head office in my country and got a similar stupid answer: they would not be able to either enter my activation code or to provide a new activation code, because I had been so stupid to de a really clean install, and "everybody" would know that this would not work.

I gave up. I will have to live with the fact that Windows will tell me every time that I am running an illegal copy of W7.
So unless somebody comes with a real solution for this, this computer will run the rest of it's life with a "illegal" copy of W7.

Thank you. I will try this procedure one of these days.

on step 7, on mine it shows 3 things. they are winre, vista and data, what one will i choose?

johnnydaman said:

on step 7, on mine it shows 3 things. they are winre, vista and data, what one will i choose?

Choose Vista.

Ref:
https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...e-upgrade.html