Windows 8 Upgrade question

Larrs888 · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:51

Hi guys,

Just a quick on really, I want to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for the £24.99 offer MS are doing directly. I have an old XP Pro License that I would like to upgrade, leaving my Windows 7 retail installation intact and license free for me to keep and perhaps even sell my boxed copy at some point.

Am I able to do what I want to do, would I actually need to install the XP copy and upgrade it from its own install?

Thanks

Larrs888 · 11 Jan 2013 at 21:28

OK cool thanks for the info, so basically to get Win 8 Pro x64 I need to use my Win7 License? My current install needs a re-fresh the network adapter is taking ages to detect on start-up and I'm fed up of waiting ten minutes for my PC to be ready to use from power up. I've given up on trying to fix it

Larrs888 · 13 Jan 2013 at 23:52

hhmm so a clean install is proving an issue then? I kinda need to do one, one of the reasons I'm considering the upgrade. I'll be getting a 120GB Samsung 840 SSD so I'll be able to keep my current Win 7 in case anything goes a miss.

Larrs888 · 14 Jan 2013 at 12:47

Ok my final question I guess, if I buy the Windows 8 upgrade via the utility on my Windows 7 install, then install my copy of Xp Pro to another partition on the same HDD then install my new SSD and then do a fresh install of Win 8 pro to the new SSD using the xp license from my HDD partition?

Man this is getting complicated, are the OEM versions of Windows 8 limited to one system configuration like with Windows 7? I always tend to buy the full retail versions of OSs so if I upgrade my system entirely I don't have to buy the OS again.