Students = Cheap windows 7

StarSolitude said:
Why?
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Because i've had issues transferring my Vista Ultimate key to Home Premium (it doesn't work currently, and I'm trying all options before phoning them) and I'd feel better about the whoel thing with that little shiny sticker.

It's just a personal preference that next time, instead of saving money (£20), i'll just get the clean retail version that I can't go wrong with.
 
Jonny_no2 said:
So if I have any problems making the DVD would a copy of for example your DVD work with my Key?

Never done an OS upgrade before, it's a bit scary :p
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Yeah, that "hypothetically" would work ;)

I might not get a chance to test it tonight - but should have time to knock together a DVD.

Edit: Assuming my download doesn't corrupt... again !
 
DampCat said:
In any case, i'm going to do the install-over-top. I'll report back with my findings to see if it's any more bloated than a fresh install. If it is, then i'll just use the above methods to do a "fresh install".

Edit: has anyone finished their install? What's the HDD damage in GB?
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ns400r said:
Hard drive damage here is 11Gb.
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My Win7 64bit install is 7.04gb (unactivated).

Not bad.
 
DampCat said:
Because i've had issues transferring my Vista Ultimate key to Home Premium (it doesn't work currently, and I'm trying all options before phoning them) and I'd feel better about the whoel thing with that little shiny sticker.

It's just a personal preference that next time, instead of saving money (£20), i'll just get the clean retail version that I can't go wrong with.
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Surely doing a custom install from a DVD created from the downloaded exe (either IMGburn or oscdimg.exe method) would work?
 
NickM said:
Surely doing a custom install from a DVD created from the downloaded exe (either IMGburn or oscdimg.exe method) would work?
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I did the custom install over-the-top, since no one else was doing it, I wanted to test the water in case anyone else tried.

I couldn't do a straight install cause you can't go from Ultimate to Home Premium, so i did a custom. The difference between the custom software and custom DVD install, i should think, is nothing. Well, what i mean is, i cant see what the difference would be. I'd still need to manually enter the key, and that's where my problem is :)
 
Jonny_no2 said:
Another quick question... I have 2 hdd in my pc, am i right in thinking the one which doesn't have windows on it will not be touched by the custom install?
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No it shouldn't do, unless you somehow tell it to wipe the drive during install :p

I'm backing up to a 2nd internal drive and installing to my main.

Edit: so slow I was beaten by the reply to the reply :(
 
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