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Windows 7 Upgrade installation to bare hard drive?
I purchased a 3 pack license of Windows 7 Upgrade since the recovery media for one of my home PCs was not working (discovered when the primary hard drive started failing). I worked with Microsoft over the phone to perform the "upgrade" to a new bare drive, which required downloading an executable that overrode the checks for a previous version of Windows.
I'm preparing to upgrade my wife's PC now and her PC's hard drive is only 250 GB so I'd like to do the "upgrade" but place the OS on a new 1 TB drive. Can I do this without having to call Microsoft? I could try the recovery media to put a factory version of the OS on the 1 TB drive but since that version is Vista 32 bit and the upgrade is Windows 7 64 bit I'd like to avoid the step.
Will give that a shot if my current plan doesn't work. I am using Parted Magic to clone the recovery partition from the 250GB drive to the 1TB drive, then using the recovery media (the 1st disc worked, the 2nd one failed). I'm hoping that I can use the recovery partition to get the base OS, then do the upgrade.
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Here's a pretty good guide on how to Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media
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