re: Upgrade or Full
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 8:12 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
If you know you will want Windows 7 and you are thinking of Upgrade vs Full and your
budget is tighter than you'd like it to be at the moment, take advantage of the early
pre-order discount offer:
http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Windows-Windows-7/category/102?WT.mc_id=msccomhpfeature_win7
Upgrade retail licenses differ from full retail licenses in that your upgrade license
incorporates the previous OS, so when you upgrade to W7 your old Vista license cannot
be installed on any other computer.
You can move the upgrade to another computer, but you have to un-upgrade (not the
same as "downgrade" that has a different meaning vis-a-vis licensing) the original
computer back to Vista (which will entail backing up then cleanly installing Vista),
then move the upgrade to another XP or Vista computer, then upgrade it to Win7, and
then the above incorporation limitation applies to the new computer.
If you want to do a clean installation with Upgrade media, you start the computer
in the previous OS (say, Vista), and during setup right after the Licensing Terms
acceptance it will ask you "Which type of installation do you want?" and give you
a choice of upgrade or "custom" which allows you to repartition and/or reformat.
Of course clean install means erasing data so back up. The fact that you started
the computer in Vista proves to W7 that you qualify for the upgrade.
- Written in response to:
- Upgrade or Full (Corey: Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 10:46 pm)
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