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upgrade or full?
I was thinking about buying windows 7 but from what i can tell on the page it makes think what's the differance between the upgrade or full version.Can some one please answer this 'cause it's confusing.
dallascowboyswo
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July 4th, 2009 01:00
If you buy the upgrade version you must have a previous copy ot XP or Vista installed on your computer to load it. If you buy the full version no previous Operating system is needed and you can do a clean install of Windows 7.
Xelkos
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July 4th, 2009 01:00
Both the 32 bit and the 64 bit OS are on the Windows 7 media now.
If you upgrade from Vista (32 bit) , it will only upgrade to Windows 7 (32 bit). Same for Vista (64 bit), it will upgrade to Windows 7 (64 bit).
Cannot go from a Vista (32 bit) to a Win7 (64 bit), or vice versa. (It's been asked a lot in other forums.)
So the upgrade means it needs a previous version of Vista installed to upgrade to Windows 7.
* In theory, you could image your Vista Installation with True Image or Ghost, and upgrade to Windows 7, then recover the Vista partition to another partition or hard drive, use a boot manager program editor, and boot both OS'.
The alternate is to purchase the full version and install where and how you want without the hassle.
wind_arc
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July 5th, 2009 09:00
So then i have to have the full version to do a clean install on windos xp.Is that right? or will the upgrade do the same thing?
wind_arc
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July 5th, 2009 10:00
never mind, i found out that even the the upgrade version of windows 7 will do a clean install on windows xp computer.