OS upgrade question.

NLAlston

NLAlston

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My wife has a laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000) which needs to be formatted. I know that,, on my Gateway desktop, there is a feature for formatting right from the hard drive itself. And I am told that there should be the same on my wife's laptop. But there isn't. Also, as much as I have searched (and exhaustively so) through the laptop, I could never find a means by which to make a copy of restoration disks. This laptop has Vista (Home Edition) on it, and I am seriously thinking about upgrading to Windows 7. It is my thinking that - aside from having an arguably better OS - I would have means by which to always revert to a clean slate, without the gunk that initially came with the laptop. But, here is my question:

Would the Windows 7 Upgrade Disk be all that I would ever need? What I mean is...what if there was a future problem encountered, which necessitated a formatting? Would that require installation of Vista back on this laptop, before I could reinstall the Windows 7 upgrade? I ask this because we have no such Vista disk (and we bought this laptop new).
 
With Windows 7 Upgrade you can do a clean install of Windows 7 but it needs to see a genuine activated version of Windows already present prior.
 
download a program call "windows 7 upgrade advisor" and it wil tell u if you should upgrade to win7 or not :D thats is what i did
 
lubo4444 said:
With Windows 7 Upgrade you can do a clean install of Windows 7 but it needs to see a genuine activated version of Windows already present prior.
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Thanks for your response. But let me make certain that I am clear on this.

There is indeed a genuine, activated version of Vista on my wife's laptop. So, when I buy Windows 7 I understand that there will be no problem installing it on the system. That part I am clear on.

But say, for instance, that I have to format & reinstall the OS at a future time. Would I just be able to use the Windows 7 upgrade disk - on its own, or would there be a requirement of Vista being put back on, for Windows 7 to springboard off of?

That is the main concern that I have, being that we have no such Vista OS disk.
 
No there will not be a problem installing windows 7 again if you have a problem the upgrade disk can indeed be installed on its own from no other windows installation.
 
Hsv_Man said:
No there will not be a problem installing windows 7 again if you have a problem the upgrade disk can indeed be installed on its own from no other windows installation.
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+1. No problems should occur if you want to do a fresh install of Win7.
 
But guys, that's wrong: You must have another Windows disc to use the upgrade disc like that. You have to insert it when it asks you to, otherwise it doesn't work.
 
lucasbytegenius said:
But guys, that's wrong: You must have another Windows disc to use the upgrade disc like that. You have to insert it when it asks you to, otherwise it doesn't work.
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Ok i'm definitely confused. I read on few places that you need it and that you dont.... :confused: I'll be following this thread so i can make sure i get the right answer...
 
IN legacy windows it was the custom to insert your OS disc when moving up to a new OS, now with Windows 7 it will detect an existing OS. The upgrade version requires genuine Windows XP or Windows Vista to be installed on the computer to activate Windows 7.

This means the previous OS disc is not needed, only an activated OS on the system.

I have upgraded from XP with a custom install and never shown my XP disc to it. I have re-installed my Windows 7 once since and never shown it my XP disc, once you have Windows 7 on your computer, that is the only OS disc you will need.
 
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