http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/10/24/how-im-installing-windows-7/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/10/24/how-im-installing-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-7025 mark Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:24:55 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=9949#comment-7025 I installed the upgrade today. I had Vista Ultimate 64 bit already installed so I couldn't do an inplace upgrade(not that I'd want to) to the 64 bit Pro version I had bought in June when they were available for $89 from Microcenter. I used the upgrade media to format my c drive, and did a regular install from there. I had already backed everything up so I wasn't too concerned. The machine activated with no problem, I was a little worried about that, but it worked fine. I haven't tried it on a new drive, Paul Thurrott posted a hack to do it with upgrade media.http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/10/23/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media-the-answer.aspx I installed the upgrade today. I had Vista Ultimate 64 bit already installed so I couldn’t do an inplace upgrade(not that I’d want to) to the 64 bit Pro version I had bought in June when they were available for $89 from Microcenter. I used the upgrade media to format my c drive, and did a regular install from there. I had already backed everything up so I wasn’t too concerned. The machine activated with no problem, I was a little worried about that, but it worked fine.
I haven’t tried it on a new drive, Paul Thurrott posted a hack to do it with upgrade media.http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/10/23/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media-the-answer.aspx

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