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Do a Clean Windows 7 Install with the Upgrade Media

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Oct 242009
 

Hey everyone!

Did you accidentally erase your hard drive partition containing Windows Vista or XP prior to trying to install Windows 7 Upgrade? Well, it won’t work! Unless you follow some simple instructions! Here you go:

1. First, do a completely clean install of Windows 7 bypassing the activation process.

2. Then, make sure that there aren’t any pending Windows Updates that will require a reboot.

3. Then enter regedit.exe in the Start Menu Search

4. Navigate to the registry key:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

5. Change MediaBootInstall from “1″ to “0″ and then close the Registry Editor.

6. Then type cmd into the Start Menu and right click the shortcut and choose “Run as Administrator”.

7. At the prompt type:

slmgr /rearm

8. Close the command line window and reboot.

9. After the computer reboots, run the Windows Activation and enter your Upgrade key.

10. Enjoy Windows 7!

Written by: Tom Duffy on October 24, 2009.on February 23, 2010.
 Posted by Tom Duffy at 2:07 pm
  • Finn

    So doing a clean install with the upgrade media won’t work so you have to do a clean install and then modify the registry…

    Maybe I’m missing something.. Well, there’s always the option of borrowing a “full” DVD from someone and then just using the license…

  • ravious

    Yep.. and once windows 7 is installed, you can see how horrible it is on your system resources, see just how many times it can lock up in a day, seeing how even simple tasks will make it become unstable and bog down.. Granted Windows 7 works better than Vista.. but its still along way from being anything worth paying for. Not to mention all the viruses and spyware that will infect you the second you enter cyberspace and turn your computer into what Microsoft has always wanted it to be.. A Corp Ad Machine designed to transmit information about you back to its customers.. You no longer own your computer..

    The new Ubuntu Linux on the other hand has saved my system, my sanity, and my privacy.. VIVA LA RESISTANCE!
    http://www.ubuntu.com/

  • Pixel

    Wow, aren’t you a real tool, ravious.

  • ELU

    Ravious, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
    Ever since I got Win7 ($30 student edition), I have had no crashes, no lockups, and no viruses. It’s obvious that you’re the worst kind of Linux fanboy. There’s good ones, and then there’s you.
    Anyway, why doesn’t a clean install from Upgrade work? The student edition I bought was upgrade media, and I just clean installed from XP without having to edit registry or anything.

  • Jaymes

    ravious… you’re pretty uninformed. I have been using Linux distros for six years now and this is an excellent version of Windows–the best yet!

    I run Win7 on my desktop ($40 student edition, Pro/64) and Arch on my laptop.

    You can love Linux all you want, but the industry is -still- primarily Windows. I am a huge advocate of Linux but you still have to know your environments.

    I know your most likely trolling but it’s important to know that Win7 is very stable. Also, not all Linux users are like him–please don’t paint us in an ignorant light, ravious.

  • Piggles My Love

    ravious – you’re a cliche. The conspiracy paranoia, the halfarsed attempt at being a rebel, the smarmy BS – it’s all so psuedo-hip teenage of you.

    Linux is ok if that’s your cup of tea, so is OS-X, so is Windows – horses for courses.

    But, please, continue to think you’re the wisest amongst us. Put yourself on a pedestal – it makes it easier for the rest of us to spot you and shoot you down.

  • Tony

    Ravious please try to control yourself, you do ubuntu users no favours with your negative attitude.

  • Brent

    Well, since Ravious had to be a douche and make me want to post, I’d have to say im a mixed bag here, I have no preference when it comes to os (except for mac) I use ubuntu and win7, hell on my second computer i have backtrack3 running. Ravious your statement is merely personal opinion as are most of peoples rants about windows/linux. If you get a crash or a freeze-up its most likely 90% your fault. Sometimes its the os tho, as i cant install or run any linux when i have my RAID config. But anyway, fuck you Ravious… thought i should just say that

  • BlankJebus

    ravious you are a major tool. I’ve had Vista and Ubuntu installed on this laptop that i’m currently using, yea Vista blew, but it was decent, and i didn’t have to do anything, device driver wise, when i installed it. with Ubuntu i had to run all the way down to my router, install the drivers myself, which took a great deal of time to find, and i still didn’t have sound for it. So far with 7, which i’ve had for about a month now, i’ve never had a problem with it. 7 runs smoothly, the boot times are super quick, and it’s never locked up on me…ever. I really dislike trolls

  • http://www.techremedy.net/blog Tom

    I have to agree. Ravious, while probably just trolling, is not helping the Linux/Open Source community at all with his comments or attitude. I wrote an article about a year ago about the death of the fanboy mentality. Check it out here:

    http://www.techremedy.net/blog/?p=31

    Enjoy!

  • Doof

    Ravious. Really? Karmic Koala is useless anyway. It’s got the uselessness and incompatibility of a Mac, with the reliability and speed of Windows.

  • Akird

    I’m impressed that literally all the comments are pointed at this ravious fellow. If you’re a troll, give yourself a pat on the back! If not, jump out nearest window.

  • http://7-0-7.co.uk Pixellated

    Not a clue why, but when I got my upgrade disc, I just wiped XP from my main partition and did a clean install as normal. I kept waiting for some sort of dialogue asking if I had a OS already installed to go over, but it never came. Perhaps it already did the check automatically when looking at my list of partitions?

  • Nisara

    @ravious: Ubuntu has saved my sanity as well, however, I will say that I have ubuntu and 7 running side by side. I have a gaming rig, and I didn’t want the performance drop of running games through an emulator. But yes, I for one am thoroughly impressed with the quality and versatility of ubuntu, or any linux distro for that matter, and the fact that upon install, it just works.

  • Bob

    Thanks so much for this article, it has been a lifesaver.

   
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