Inplace Upgrade Install With Windows 7
Jan 12, 2009How to Do a Inplace Upgrade Installation from Vista to Windows 7 ?
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Inplace Upgrade Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 64?
Jun 9, 2012I do not have a SP 1 disk as i downloaded andbinstalled the SP 1. Now i want to do an inplace upgrade but when i try with my "non" SP1 Windows 7 disk i get an error message saying the winows ver i have installed is newer than the version i am trying to install.What are the steps to inplace upgrade my SP1 ver without an SP1 Windows 7 disk?
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Sep 3, 2012I have tried to repair upgrade windows 7 with SP1 using an ISO which I got from Digital River.At the compatability checking stage I get an error message:The Following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading:An error prevents a required compliance from completing. Cancel installation and try upgrading again.I cannot uninstall SP1 as I have used Disc cleaner since.I have done a scan and there were some files which could not be repaired but I don't understand the log file.
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Sep 20, 2010I bought a new hard drive and win 7 upgrade disc (I do own a copy of win 98 and win xp upgrade so thats all legal) I put the win 7 upgrade disc in and it started to install it gets right to the bit where you need to put your product key in and then its says INVALID LICENCE KEY I ve tried and tried but thats all it will say (and yes I did un check the activate windows on line)
So I then tried installing my xp upgrade disc after it scans the hard drive it says please put your copy of win 98 in the disc drive to see if you are eligible for the upgrade (not exact words but you get the drift) after it checks it then it says put you xp disc back in the drive. but it wont install it just keeps going round in a loop doing the same things as above and wanting to re formate the drive all the time and asking for the win 98 disc.
I am now thinking of having to install win 98 then xp upgrade then win 7 (I want to use the 64 bit disc too) seems a bit long winded but I don't know what else to do. Its a bit of a pain because win 98 disc won't recognise my cd drive I assume because its SATA, anyway I have an old ATA/IDE cd drive which I ve just rigged up and win 98 is now formating the drive but its gona take ages.
Clean Install With Windows 7 Upgrade?
Feb 16, 2012I did a reformat of my hard drives, completely clean, recently, and reinstalled my copy of Windows 7 without problems. However, the activation did not go smoothly, my key is a Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit UPGRADE key, and it told me that it couldn't be used.
I have read the other threads on this subject, but couldn't figure out if there was another way or not to deal with this situation, other than buying another copy of windows, or wiping again, installing xp or vista, and then upgrading.If possible, I would prefer to not have to reinstall windows, or move my files around, because I was borrowing the external drive I used to reformat the first time, and I'm currently in college.
What Would Be Better? An Upgrade To Windows 7 Or A Clean Install ?
Dec 11, 2009I have a 64 bit HP DV7 laptop with Vista 64 bit installed
What would be better? an upgrade to windows 7 or a clean install, I heard that a clean install will really run a lot better, what are the differences if any?
Upgrade To Windows 7 Using A Clean Install DVD
May 28, 2010I am currently running genuine Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit), which has been clean-installed. I have now got a Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit I think) clean install DVD. I want to install Windows 7, but instead of a clean install, I prefer to just upgrade. Yes I know a clean install is always better, but I don't really want to spend time re-installing software and reconfiguring the whole PC the way I like it.
When I try to run setup from within Vista I get "This installation disc isn't compatible with your version of Windows". I have done a Ghost image of my current Vista partition, so if anything goes wrong during upgrade, I am prepared to just do a full restore, like nothing ever happened.
Can't Install Software After Upgrade From Xp To Windows 7
Mar 7, 2012I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit. I "upgraded" settings, files, etc. from my Windows XP Tablet Edition, 32 bit, using the tool that came with Windows 7. Everything seems to have copied over, including my user icon, but my directory under C:Users is blue and contains stuff that obviously carried over from XP, also marked blue.Here's the deal. I can't seem to install (some) software, such as Java. Java, for example, fails to find a file in C:Users[my account]AppDataLocalLowSunJava. When I check the file is there. Apparantly it's a permissions issue, because if I log on as Administrator then I can install anything. And yes, my account has administrator privileges. I've tried opening up permissions on every directory in that path, to no avail.I had to give my new PC a different name than my old PC so they could co-exist on the network, and after I transferred everything over I re-named the new PC to the name of the old PC. I've scrubbed the registry, changing every mention of the "new" name back to the "old" name, but that didn't seem to affect anything. I've run CCleaner and other tools, too.
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Install Windows 7 Upgrade On A Second Drive?
Oct 19, 2012I have a drive on a desktop that had XP on it, and I removed the drive, and formatted it. When I try to install Windows 7 to the clean drive, it says windows is installing everything, but all I get is the splash screen, and nothing else, no files or anything. I have tried this a number of times with the same result. I have an ASUS motherboard. (A8V). 2 GB of memory. The hard drive is a 500 GB Seagate I got about 11 months ago.
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Oct 22, 2012I have ordered an SSD drive that should arrive at the same time as Windows 8 is released later this week.
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I was thinking I could:
- re install Windows 7 on the SSD, format the HDD and then buy the Windows 8 upgrade
OR
- buy the upgrade before installing the SSD and create the upgrade installation DVD. Install the SSD drive, boot up from the HDD and then use the clean install facility on the Windows 8 upgrade DVD to install Windows 8 onto the SSD and reformat the HDD?