Windows 7 upgrade

bibs · 29 Dec 2009 at 14:24

Hi guys

a few months ago I bought "windows 7 upgrade" to replace vista, but now I have a new hard drive on the way.

Do I have to install vista onto the new drive before installing windows 7 ?

I had a look here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/upgrade-faq-option.aspx but could not find any info.

thanks

Robert1986 · 29 Dec 2009 at 14:38

If you want W7 to operate on the new drive, then yes, you'll have to install it again.

I'm sure theres some sort of software that copies an image of your drive and you just put it onto another one. Not really looked into that though.

raralis · 29 Dec 2009 at 14:43

If you've got the upgrade version of Win7, then you most likely need to install Vista beforehand.

Or you could just create an image from your current hdd and copy it to the new one as mentioned before.

username7 · 29 Dec 2009 at 16:48

Possibly not:

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp