Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I did a MB, processor and memory swap since my 4-year old ASIS M2N Plus SLI was dying. I never thought, at the time, I was installing an upgrade version of Win7 Professional on my Intel X-25M until it came time to activate. When I called MS to activate by phone, they said I needed to reload XP. Since I have been upgrading since like Win 98 (and I have all the disks back to Win95 (remember the paper licenses with keys printed on them?)), I thought that could present an issue. After a few minutes on the forum I found your tutorial and there is again balance in the universe - thanks again!!!!!!!

Hello there! Thank you for the tutorial.

I am wondering one thing, I plan to purchase Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade (Digital Download) from the Microsoft Store.

Is it a retail version?

Brink said:

Hello Andrej, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yes, that would be a "retail" upgrade copy of Windows 7 that you could use the tutorial to do a clean install with. :)

Hello Brink, thank you again for the tutorial. Method 2 worked perfectly for me.

I am concerned about finding all the drivers I need after a clean install and if "murphy" will be around to assist - hopefully not!
I had Vista, upgraded to various versions of Win 7 and the last rev is the 7100 release cantidate. System works fine with the exception it reboots every 2 hours!!! I really want to upgrade to a legal rev but I am concerned how long it will take once I start the process and it it will even be able to finish without drivers needed. I have limited time to use the PC and limited witeless access. Any suggestions? I have a Lenovo Y530. There is a second partition but not sure if the drivers there will work wiht Win 7. I really can't afford to be down more than a day to do this. Thanks and appreciate you knowledgable people!