re: Installing
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
I didn't want to over-write WindowsXP anyway. I already had both Win2000 and WinXP
installed as a dual-boot pair on the machine I wanted Win7 on (that I'd used a couple
of months ago to install Win7's Betas on already). I'd reformatted and setup the
two older OSes after I was satisfied with the Beta Windows 7 software.
Windows 7 said it wouldn't upgrade whether I wanted to do so or not; it insisted
on a clean install to its own partition. It wasn't happy with the NTFS format I'd
set up for it, but only took a split second to "fix" whatever it thought was wrong.
It never asked for any further proof that I could use an Upgrade Version, and seemed
to go a great further into the install process before asking for the CD Key number
than I recall ever having seen before on any Windows of any generation.
It does one more thing I hadn't expected (my tests of the Betas were as stand-alone
OSes the way Microsoft's instructions wanted), when it shuffled the drive letters
around to suit itself, so it could be on "C".
.
Kiwi
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On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:11 am, Steve wrote:
>Doesn't work that way anymore.
- Written in response to:
- re: installing (Steve: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:11 am)
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