Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version

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  1. Posts : 5
    vista home base
       #40

    My situation is my old os was 32bit vista home basic, and I orded the 64bit Win7 professional.
    But I cann't directly active the system by the clean install with the key.(my notebook can ran both 32bit and 64bit os)
    What the problem is that?
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  2. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #41

    Hello Prunas, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Did you try Method Three in the tutorial on the first page to get it activated?
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  3. Posts : 18
    7 Home Premium x64
       #42

    Thanks for this great tutorial, Brink! I'm slowly learning on here too!
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  4. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #43

    You're welcome Coolfire, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)
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  5. Posts : 4
    Windows 7
       #44

    Hi, thanks for this great tutorial. it came in very handy when I simply tried to upgrade without the clean install and I had some annoying error messges. I then Used "Option 2".

    My question: I used option 2. Everything seems to be running stable. Would it have been better to wipe/reformat my hard drive before I installed 7 so I would have installed to a blank drive? Or was option 2 just as good?
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  6. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #45

    Hello Ashaff, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Either method is just as good. A custom install is basically the same as a clean install except that a custom install places the previous OS files in the Windows.old folder instead of just wiping them out as in a clean install. Once you delete the Windows.old folder, they are completely the same. :)

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  7. Posts : 5
    vista home base
       #46

    Brink said:
    Hello Prunas, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Did you try Method Three in the tutorial on the first page to get it activated?
    Thank you!
    I reinstalled again with the new iso dvd, it worked.
    Thanks a lot!
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  8. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #47

    You're welcome Prunus. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. :)
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  9. Posts : 4
    Windows 7
       #48

    Brink said:
    Hello Ashaff, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Either method is just as good. A custom install is basically the same as a clean install except that a custom install places the previous OS files in the Windows.old folder instead of just wiping them out as in a clean install. Once you delete the Windows.old folder, they are completely the same. :)

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    Thanks for the reasurance. Thanks for helping, I'm glad people like you will help noobs like me.

    So am I correct in thinking that with option 2 windows is simply wiping that hard drive instead the same as I would manually be doing it (exept for retaining the OS files in .old folder)? In other words windows is just doing this step for me?
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  10. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #49

    That would be correct. :)
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