CJ Jackson Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 What happen if you want give your old copy of Windows XP or Vista to somebody else?
Shibathedog Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 Just give it to them, You don't need your old key/disc and you don't even need it installed to use the upgrade edition. You can start with a completely blank HDD and do a clean install of 7 from an upgrade disc.
VT-Vincent Posted October 27, 2009 Author Posted October 27, 2009 I don't see a problem with the upgrade versions. Admittedly, the extra install or registry change needed to qualify for it can be a pain, but it's a lot better than paying the full price for it. The only license type I'd avoid are OEM licenses, they technically can't be transfered (ever) to another computer. Knowing how lax Microsoft's activation line is, there's a good chance they'd do it anyway but I would risk over $100 on that.
Inky Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 I've got everything ready to do the upgrade. all my stuff backed up on a separate partition. I may do it this week. it seems my wifi card doesn't have win7 drivers though.there are some workarounds but I dunno if I want to go through all that.
VT-Vincent Posted October 28, 2009 Author Posted October 28, 2009 Good luck with your upgrade. If you have any imaging software on hand, it wouldn't hurt to make a disk image before you do the upgrade. At least that way, if anything really goes south you can roll back to your old OS without any headaches.
Shibathedog Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 I'm still waiting on Razer to release a driver for my damn mouse of all things. Also I thought with Win7 even the OEMs come up up to 3 machine license, maybe not though. The activation line is pretty lax, I've used it a couple times. I just told them the PC it used to be installed on doesn't exist anymore because it was parted out and I wanted to install it on my new machine.
Inky Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 I went ahead and did a clean install this morning. It went surprisingly well, no major problems. I have to use an odd driver for my wifi. Makes it feel alittle laggy and slower but hopefully linksys will get off thier ass soon.
Shibathedog Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Try using the Vista driver, supposedly Win7 is backward compatible with all of the Vista drivers. From what I've read it's more like most of them though.
James Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Bios mod here, Win 7 ultimate OEM runs fine on my old Acer aspire (2005)
Inky Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Try using the Vista driver, supposedly Win7 is backward compatible with all of the Vista drivers. From what I've read it's more like most of them though.tried that, no go. there isn't even a 64bit vista driver for my card. which seems odd as it is a Linksys WMP54G. a card that is widely available at every best buy and walmart. It's not like it is some oddball no name card.
Shibathedog Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Yeah that is a bit odd. Especially since Linksys is actually Cisco. Very unlike them.
VT-Vincent Posted October 30, 2009 Author Posted October 30, 2009 Ever since Cisco took over Linksys, it seems like their products and support haven't been up to par. I have a PCI Gigabit card from them that they decided not to support in Vista. I also have had more reliability issues with their routers. I ended up moving over to D-Link for most of my networking needs since then, so far I've had a good experience.
Weirdy Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 Started a clean install last night with the latest BIE release and it didn't work. I installed it three different times: tried it once w/out internet, w/internet and not unchecking "Activate once you connect to the internet," then w/internet and unchecking Activate et al. Neither install would activate even though it's supposed to be pre-activated; not even with the HAZAR activator. Then I started looking around for solutions from my linux install and found the "Windows 7 Loader" which finally did the trick. Before doing so, I had GRUB reclaim the MBR just in case (since the loader works from boot).
Shibathedog Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 Did you set a password during install? What you are supposed to do is disable the update check, not set any password (for your account or admin) and then when it boots to the desktop for the first time you just let it sit there until it restarts itself. If you want I can PM you a link about how to activate it manually if that still doesn't work. (It is funky with certain mobos I think) I have also started moving to D-Link, right now I run a WRT54GS V2 with Tomato though.
Weirdy Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 No, I didn't set a password or enable update check. Also, the cracking phase didn't initiate until after I entered my username, etc. An empty command line just appears and you're supposed to wait for it to finish AFAIK. Already got it activated with a loader though, but I won't be updating (I did update when it booted to the desktop for the firs time).
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