How To do a clean install of Windows 7 using an upgrade DVD

[MobileTechie]

Hey great tip, thanks a lot for that one.

[Anodyzed]

THis is not much different than Vista. Rather than 'upgrade' I wanted a dual boot, obviously not using them both at the same time, so I clean-installed Vista, did NOT activate it, then I 'upgraded' it with the same DVD, and activated it. Worked fine.

John

[GuitarCrazyo]

i dont even have that file i went and typed it into run gpedit.msc , and i got a error about a missing file..................oh well using xp home btw

[Tweak]

Originally Posted by GuitarCrazyo

i dont even have that file i went and typed it into run gpedit.msc , and i got a error about a missing file..................oh well using xp home btw

Home does not have the Group Policy Editor.

[pc-wiz]

I used this same method on my laptop when upgrading to Win 7. I replaced my hard drive and my Vista recovery discs were bad so I couldn't re-install Vista. This tweak came to the rescue!! Very useful as long as you do it legally and have a previous copy of windows.

[i2omani]

What do you mean clean install? lose all my data and application?

Originally Posted by AtYourService

You can do a full install with a win7 upgrade disk
After performing the clean install, ensure that there are no Windows Updates pending that would require a system reboot. (You’ll see an orange shield icon next to Shutdown in the Start Menu if this is the case).

Then, open regedit.exe with Start Menu Search and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Change MediaBootInstall from “1″ to “0″.

Open the Start Menu again and type cmd to display a shortcut to the Command Line utility. Right-click this shortcut and choose “Run as administrator.” Handle the UAC prompt.

In the command line window, type: slmgr /rearm

Then tap ENTER, close the command line window and reboot. When Windows 7 reboots, run the Activate Windows utility, type in your product key and activate windows. It should just work.

do this after the upgrade or before the upgrade...sorry i am confused a little bit here!!

[allanc]

Would this technique work with a dual booted computer using EaseUS to partition?