Win 8 Pro Upgrade Questions

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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May have already been asked so apologies in advance if it has.

Currently running Win 7 Premium Retail. If I purchase the upgrade will :

1. I have to re-install windows 7 first each time i want to re-install windows in future. Could be a pain if that's the case.

2. the upgrade tied in with the retail version of Win 7 i have i.e. will it allow as many upgrades as I choose, which is why I bought the retail version in the first place.


Thanks
 
1.) You can install the upgrade on a clean hard drive if you really want to, it just takes a little fiddling to get it to work, various threads have explained this process..

2.) All versions of windows have a hardware change reactivation limit. But so long as you're only installing it on one machine at any time, then I don't think you have a problem.
 
I did the upgrade online via MS. After checking your OS is valid for upgrade it gives the option to do a clean install, in doing so I downloaded an iso of Windows 8 Pro. Which didn't require any Windows 7 bits to be present at install, not the disk, not the licence, no phone activation, nothing. Just the Win 8 iso and the Win 8 key which they emailed me. I installed it on a fresh out of the box Intel 520. This was back in November though. They may have changed it.
 
Ceryndrion said:
1.) You can install the upgrade on a clean hard drive if you really want to, it just takes a little fiddling to get it to work, various threads have explained this process..

2.) All versions of windows have a hardware change reactivation limit. But so long as you're only installing it on one machine at any time, then I don't think you have a problem.
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No fiddling, once the upgrade key has been activated once you can clean install away.... There's a lot of confusion surrounding this subject.
 
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