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| 859612 | 2010-02-18 05:02:00 | Apologies if this has been asked before, as it most likely has. My laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium, and I've been running Windows 7 RC and don't want to go back. I was wondering should I get the 7 upgrade or just go for the full release? If I buy the upgrade, is the money I'll save worth avoiding the hassle of reinstalling Vista first? thanks! |
kettles (14332) | ||
| 859613 | 2010-02-18 05:14:00 | A complete fresh install is always better than a upgrade. Places like Ascent (www.ascent.co.nz) - scroll down to Operating systems - will sell you OEM copies. Of course you will need to install some drivers etc, as W7 wont pick them all up. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 859614 | 2010-02-18 21:01:00 | Apologies if this has been asked before, as it most likely has. My laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium, and I've been running Windows 7 RC and don't want to go back. I was wondering should I get the 7 upgrade or just go for the full release? If I buy the upgrade, is the money I'll save worth avoiding the hassle of reinstalling Vista first? thanks! Food for thought: I bought the retail (full) version of Windows 7 Ultimate off eBay for NZ$265, new and sealed, from an Australian seller. This is cheaper than even any OEM versions of Windows 7 that I could find listed on PriceSpy. Saved me $200 off the same product selling in NZ. And yes, it's a genuine Microsoft product, as I activated it with Microsoft. |
xmojo1 (4630) | ||
| 859615 | 2010-02-19 02:53:00 | It is possible to do a clean install with upgrade media (by way of a double install), so whichever is cheaper is what you should get (unless you don't like the double install idea). | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 859616 | 2010-02-19 04:27:00 | Ahhh- tell me more? :) | R.M. (561) | ||
| 859617 | 2010-02-19 04:30:00 | See www.winsupersite.com - method 3 is the one I used for Vista. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 859618 | 2010-02-19 05:14:00 | To explain a little further - I have a Toshiba M300-900 laptop I bought last July with Vista OS. I then got an upgrade disc from Toshiba in about October which I used to upgrade to Windows 7 OS. It worked - took for ages to complete - about 7 hours from whoa to go. However - the lappy now takes quite a while to boot up (didn't before with Vista) and I would prefer to partition C drive, have the OS and programmes there, and keep my data on a separate partition. Then I would use Acronis to make an image of the drive. Can I do that now? With the upgrade disc I have? What do you think?? I now realise I have 'hijacked' this thread. :( Sorry. |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 859619 | 2010-02-19 05:42:00 | Yes. Partition the drive and set users/passwords in the first install, then upgrade. Basically it's upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 7. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 859620 | 2010-02-19 05:51:00 | Great - thanks for that... :) | R.M. (561) | ||
| 859621 | 2010-02-19 07:17:00 | about 7 hours from whoa to go. In that amount of time you can completely reinstall from fresh (three times easily) install all programs & replace data, and it will run better than an upgrade. A fresh install of W7 takes approx 20-30 minutes. Then the drivers & windows updates. Then add in what ever programs. (done two PC's today before lunch one after the other) and still had time to muck about. Edited: all I have to do is transfer one persons data - about 30 GB. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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