Windows 7 - Upgrade/Clean Install

370Zsteve

That's good news. Nothing worse than an OS upgrade, especially with Windoze and the goddamn Registry bloat.

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DIGItonium

Definitely clean install, which is pretty straight forward. It's the upgrade media and attempting a clean install on a blank disk. I was afraid MS closed the loop hole and required users to do in-place upgrades with the Win7 upgrade media, but I wanted to confirm this was possible and that an existing OS wasn't required. It's a sticky situation when a laptop drive fails, and the upgrade media becomes useless.

So one should manually activate Windows with the supplied key from the upgrade media after installation, correct?

Thanks for the confirmation and report. I can't wait to ditch the U330 hard drive in favor of an SSD before installing Win7 with the upgrade media. I'll give it a shot in a couple of weeks. Feel free to report your results in this thread!

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theDreamer

My two installs have been perfect so far, desktop found 90% of drivers without having to do any updates and the next 5% through windows. The rest I knew I had to get on my own but that went fine.

The netbook I had to do a USB install which of it all the longest part was copying the data from the DVD to the USB drive. The install on my netbook may have been slightly faster than my beefy desktop, but again most all drivers on first go around, most of the rest through windows update. A few things not working on the netbook but that is because of Asus not releasing the drivers until they official release their Windows 7 version of my netbook.

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