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Old October 24th, 2009, 04:33 PM     #31 (permalink)
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Actually, the link directly from Technet works without requiring login (600KB/s downloading for me now).

Just let me know what version (Home Premium x64 for example).
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Old October 24th, 2009, 04:35 PM     #32 (permalink)
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I signed up for the sweepstakes at newegg. (I'm hoping for either 7 or the 260).
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Old October 24th, 2009, 04:47 PM     #33 (permalink)
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Actually, the link directly from Technet works without requiring login (600KB/s downloading for me now).

Just let me know what version (Home Premium x64 for example).

Win 7 Professional 64-bit.
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Old October 24th, 2009, 04:51 PM     #34 (permalink)
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PM sent with the direct link. Last time the links were posted public (Vista release) MSFT's servers were taken out by the number of people downloading.
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Old October 24th, 2009, 04:59 PM     #35 (permalink)
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Soo... download, make an image and boot? Use the license for the upgrade? (Whoops, I see it is an iso.)

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Old October 24th, 2009, 05:04 PM     #36 (permalink)
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Yep, just burn and treat as a regular install disk. Your upgrade key should work on it unless for some (stupid) reason they changed that since Vista (unlikely).
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Any reason to think I have to clear off the old OSes, or can I just install?
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You should be able to wipe the disk of everything with the windows 7 cd (if you not wanting to save any of it of course!)
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Looks like I downloaded a corrupted or incomplete file -- only 2.4 GB. I'll try again tomorrow on a faster connection.
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I preordered from Newegg months ago, got my copy on Thursday. But I've got a real problem: It's the Upgrade edition, and although I have a legal copy of Win XP, it needs to be installed and activated before I can upgrade -- and the hard drive on my computer is SATA, which the Win XP install disk doesn't recognize!

What do I do?

I hate the fact that the upgrade options want you to have the old OS present as well. what happens when you want to do a clean format? well... you have to install XP again and then W7. Way to go microsoft.

I tried installing my Vista upgrade (from XP) as a standalone in the past and I got all the way to activation and then it says it wanted XP
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