xp to win 7 upgrade unclear
the half off upgrade sounds good but you need to clear up the wording of upgrading from xp. does the win 7 upgrade install over xp only after you format. then do a clean install of xp then install the win 7 upgrade ? that sounds like a government job. real real lame. the way it is made to sound is do a clean install of win 7 with the upgrade after but thar would be a fresh install...not a upgrade [QUOTE] Microsoft designed Windows 7 Upgrade media for Windows Vista. A customer with Windows XP can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade media but must back up their files, clean install, and then reinstall their applications.[QUOTE] please clarify this.
June 26th, 2009 11:57am

You have XP on your machine. You install the Windows 7 upgrade. As XP isn't compatible with Windows 7 in many points, you can't install Windows 7 "over" XP (in-place-upgrade), you must do a clean install. XP is wiped out (therefore you should save your personal files in time), and Windows 7 takes its place. What's so unclear about this?Mobile AMD64 3000+, VIA Apollo K8T800 chipset, 1 G RAM, ATIRadeonMobility 9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)
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June 26th, 2009 12:16pm

ddb - No.. 1.) You back up your data from XP. 2.) You insert the Win 7 DVD and run the SETUP.EXE that's on the disk - or click Install now when the disk autoplays.2a.) (optional) You can run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor - this will spot any trouble you may have installing hardware or software.3.) It looks at your system and tells you you're running XP - and the only installation it can do is a clean one.4.) Your system reboots and you format the hard drive and install Win 7 on it.5.) You then reinstall your apps.6.) You get your data back from back ups.Note on backups - DO NOT use the XP Backup tool. The Win 7 back up tool will not likely recognize the format. You can copy the files to another drive, burn them to DVD or use another tool to back your data up.
June 26th, 2009 12:21pm

Thank you for your inquiry, i will repor it to our feedback team. In additon, hope following thread can help you. Win7 - Clean Install Using "Upgrade" Version ?Thanks.
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June 26th, 2009 12:27pm

thanks. and yes i understood it before i read the instructions . if you follow instuctions one wrong word can screw it all up. . but i would like to add the people at M$ need to come up with a little application that copys the authentication info to a boot disk. or let xp users upgrade to a seperate partition. then format the xp partition . custom installs are only a quick format . bad sectors could still be there. any disk that has had xp installed first. really should get a good scrubbing before 7 gets installed. . i have been in the beta from the start and belive M$ has a real good shot at getting this O.S. right. it's pretty stable and enough not like vista. vista is the windows millineum version for the NTFS file system.
June 26th, 2009 4:13pm

Thank you all for this thread. It has cleared up al but one question for me: if I upgrade my XP computer to Windows 7, does it invalidate my Windows XP license? There are two reasons I am asking: 1) in case I have trouble with drivers and have to go back to XP temporarily, and 2) assuming all is well, I'dlike to install my copy of XP on another computer which is currently running Windows 2000, and unfortunately does not have the specs to run Windows 7.update: the above question was answered in anothe thread. windows 7 assumes the license from XP, and I can't use the XP license for another computer. I'll have to figure out what to do about that other machine, since I know it can run XP but I don't think it will run Windows 7 (only 768MB RAM).
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June 29th, 2009 5:43pm

Phoenix - 1.) It shouldn't be a problem. Ifyou're having problems and need to go back, you should be able to reinstall XP and be on your way.Be sure to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor on that machine to see if there will be any trouble spots ahead of time. 2.) You can only install your copy of XP on other hardware IF it's a retail package. If you've got an OEM copy, that would violate your license big time.
June 30th, 2009 1:51am

It is a retail package. Does that mean I can install it on the other computer? I thought Windows 7 assumed the XP license regardless.Update: the latest Microsoft Customer Service rep I spoke to confirms what Wolfie2k6 just said about being able to install a retail version of XP on another computerHe said that the upgrade version is a full version and I don't have to have XP on the machine to install (I usually reformat before installing a new OS). Perhaps it will ask for my XP disk to verify that I have a legitimate product to upgrade from. I guess it doesn't matter if it has to see XP running first, if Windows 7 install will reformat the drive anyway.
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June 30th, 2009 3:17am

I asked about this on another thread, and got this answer: Is this for retail versions of XP or only OEM versions? Either version. You can no longer use the qualifying Windows XP license by itself again unless you uninstall Windows 7 Upgrade by reformatting the hard drive. Carey Frisch Marked As Answer byCarey FrischMVP, Answerer4 hours 5 minutes ago*********************************************************************************************************************now I am wondering what happens if I have to revert to Windows XP...
July 2nd, 2009 11:06pm

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