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10-03-2009, 12:47 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1
|  Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
I bought a new HDD recently and I want its OS to be Windows 7 Professional. I took advantage of the offer Microsoft made to students for windows 7, being a discount for $30 and you may have the discs shipped for an extra $13. I choose to order the discs for future installation purposes.
My question is, does this offer only work as an upgrade? for example, do I have to install vista on my new HDD and then upgrade to windows 7? Or can I just install windows 7 without having to upgrade | 
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10-03-2009, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,711
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
At this time it is not known. There is no one with the Win7 Upgrade Media to test if it can be used to do a full install without having to install a previous version of Windows first. That will not be known till the release of Win7 happens on Oct 22.
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10-18-2009, 01:45 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Irving, TX Posts: 1,181
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
A friend of mine called M$ directly and they gave him the full version. If you order it online it's the upgrade version. I think if you call you are getting the upgrade version from Digital River. If you call you can request the full version.
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10-19-2009, 02:58 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Irving, TX Posts: 1,181
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
My g/f called today to get me the Pro version with disc. She tried it online and it never stated you are getting the full version. It did allow her to pick Pro but not with a disc.
Came to $37 shipped via UPS in 3-5 days.
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10-21-2009, 04:28 PM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,425
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
somewhere there's instructions for installing. after reading it, i got the impression that i would be able to install win 7 on a formatted hd.
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10-21-2009, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,711
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
Yes there are instructions all over the place. But they are incomplete as no one, and i mean NO ONE has had access to Upgrade only media. Everyone to date has only had Retail Media. Cant go by what is said with that cause it is not the same.
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10-21-2009, 08:15 PM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,425
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
looks like the instructions i found a link for on the offical site (digital river) sends ppl to general instructions for installing win 7. we're prolly only buying a upgrade copy with this offer. Windows 7 US Online Store - Technical Support | |
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10-22-2009, 07:45 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 111
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
I have access... thanks to my university.
There's an "upgrade" options and in the "custom options" there's the option to reformat your drives, although I'm not too sure how that would work, as Vista is RUNNING in order to use the install.exe
Last edited by zythyl; 10-22-2009 at 07:52 PM.
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10-22-2009, 07:56 PM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,425
| Re: Windows 7 $30 upgrade, only a upgrade?
the exe will add files, change config, and reboot. next it will continue installing windows. just as if you inserted a cd.
or this is what previous versions of windows did and they changed it
edit - it can't format the drive, the install files would be earsed, duh....i dunno
edit2 - custom is prolly for dual booting
Last edited by office politics; 10-22-2009 at 08:00 PM.
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