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#1 Nvyseal

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 08:23 PM

This answers questions for full install or doing an upgrade

Article located on MS's site HERE

Screenshot of In place install or Clean Install

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 08:33 PM

this will be great if i can upgrade from my xp x64, though i thought MS frowned upon upgrades from OEM releases... :scara: well, i just might pre order the upgrade then :storm:

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Posted 09 January 2007 - 10:15 PM

Yeah, that's cool and all!! But you still have to have XP installed first. So, that kinda sucks!! Take to much time!!

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 02:34 AM

View Postm.oreilly, on Jan 9 2007, 03:33 PM, said:

this will be great if i can upgrade from my xp x64, though i thought MS frowned upon upgrades from OEM releases... :scara: well, i just might pre order the upgrade then :storm:




My upgrade went out yesterday. I had to send them sales slip to prove I bought the laptop with in the dates

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 04:05 AM

View Postchriso_86, on Jan 9 2007, 02:15 PM, said:

Yeah, that's cool and all!! But you still have to have XP installed first. So, that kinda sucks!! Take to much time!!

Can't we reformat the partition that XP is on then just prove we have the disk like XP wanted the Win98 disk to verify for upgrading? Or is it different this time? :storm:

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Posted 10 January 2007 - 04:18 AM

I called them up anyway just to get them to cross me off their list.......well!......you can never be too sure!!

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