Win7 Upgrade

Beav · October 26, 2009

Hello.

My windows 7 upgrade disc came this morning. The pc I will be installing it on has a corrupt start up file and the pc has 2 hardrives (one running as backup). Will I be able to do a clean Win7 install on the first hardrive whilst the second hard drive is disconnected and then connected the second hardrive backup and copy the data accross from the backup hardrive to the primary one?

~Thanks

Camel · October 26, 2009

Yes, now stop asking the same question everyday as it has been answered several times.

Beav · October 26, 2009

Done it now :D

iLLGT3 · October 26, 2009

You'll have to let us know how Windows 7 is. I'm curious as to how it is. ;)

Judasneon · October 26, 2009

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha DK wot u like........

I got 3 hard drives on my system lol I have a 320Gb as my main startup with XP pro on...

My 1Tb hard drive internal has Win 7 on and I have a 1Tb external backup hdd....

lots of storage space Ill never need another drive for a while.

Windows 7 is brilliant....Im running the Rc at the moment but in 2 weeks Im getting the win 7 ultimate full for £119.00 woohoo.

mod edit: Please don't double post, use the edit button. Thanks!

Beav · October 26, 2009

Ahh kewl. I can't enter the product key as it has to the the product key for win7 not the computer which is on my college emails and im not sure how to read them from home :/

kalniel · October 27, 2009

You'll have to let us know how Windows 7 is. I'm curious as to how it is. ;)

If you were curious you should have tried the RC :p

It's good. Not a huge step over Vista, but much improved (behind the scenes) from XP, especially in terms of security.

DiMl972l · October 27, 2009

Hi i've got windows 7 Pro x64 since few months(thx to msdna) and it's really a good OS compared with vista and xp, the perfomances have improve a lot !! win 7 handle the devices better than vista(so more perfomances :D) in few words it quicker, faster, Better if you can have win 7 just install it :D

Beav · October 28, 2009

I still havnt entered the product key for win7 upgrade and its not the one on the computer so I can't get it. I think its in my college emails which im not sure how to read at home. Is it ok for me not to enter the product key till im back at college?

Camel · October 28, 2009

I still havnt entered the product key for win7 upgrade and its not the one on the computer so I can't get it. I think its in my college emails which im not sure how to read at home. Is it ok for me not to enter the product key till im back at college?

Of course the one on your computer won't work as that's for a totally different thing. :rolleyes:

You have upto 120 days (if you know the trick to allow this) to activate your copy of Windows 7. The product key is in the email that they send you with the download link for Windows 7. So how you managed to miss it, I don't know.

Beav · October 29, 2009

Well mellors its on my college emails which I dont know how to access at home. I did copy the email with the link to the site which they send you to login once it has been confirmed you are entitled to windows7 uprade but this does not have the product key so it must be in a more recent email :/

Camel · October 29, 2009

Right. You know the email they sent to you with the link for the download, well the product key is in THAT email, not the order confirmation one.

It doesn't matter that you can't get on your emails yet. You have upto 30 days to activate it. So just forget about it till you are back at college then copy down the product key and activate it at home.

It's not exactly hard.