Complete Dumbass here requesting help upgrading from Vista -> OEM Win7
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I've never had to do this myself, mostly I just moan at my brother until he does it but I figure I have to do this shit eventually.
I have Vista 32bit and I just bought an additional 2gb of RAM and a 9800GTS, along with these pretties I got the cheap Home Premium OEM Windows 7. Now I just expected an upgrade from Vista->Windows7 but it seems I have to do this stuff.
Before anyone attempts to help poor little me, I have absolutely no idea how to make stuff boot from disc and such.
Misc info;
I have two hard drives.
Vista is installed on C, whilst steam and all other stuff is on D. I'd like to format them both to have a fresh start with Win7.
Anything else you need to know? Will anyone help me? :v:
You say you want a fresh start, just place the Windows disk in the drive and restart, you might need to change your BIOS settings so your disk drive takes priority over the harddrive in booting.
Once in the installer, just go through untill it says "Where do you want to install Windows?" (something like that) and you can format the drives from there.
I'm not sure if you can upgrade from vista to Win7 without performing a clean install, therefore expect everything on the OS partition to be wiped during the process.
So heres what I was thinking.
Format the drive without Vista, then stick in the disc and reset.
What will happen then?
You'll have a system dual booting Vista and Windows 7, if I interpreted your post correctly
I don't understand how I can format the drive with windows vista on it THEN start the installation for Windows 7 :ohdear:
If it's like previous versions of Windows, stick the disc in, reboot, choose to install it on the desired drive, choose the "wipe the fuck out of everything on the desired drive" option, and you're done.
[QUOTE=GoldenBullet;24757514]I don't understand how I can format the drive with windows vista on it THEN start the installation for Windows 7 :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
You boot into the disk, the disk has a utility that lets you format your HDD
Ah right.
So how do I make sure it boots from the disc?
(Sorry, before I want to make sure I do it right)
Currently on Windows 7 64-bit.
Woohoo :v:
congratulations :v:
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