I did clean install from boot on both of my win8 upgrade discs. You do need to follow instructions to do registry hack to get it to authenticate when using an upgrade key for clean install. Much more stable than an upgrade.
lopaka ________________________________ From: Winterlight <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:19 PM Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade install. Last year I bought one of the 25 dollar Windows 8 Pro upgrade iso download deals from MS. I am now ready to install it and have a few questions. I have all ready installed Win7 on another hard drive with the boot drive located on a clean SSD ready for Windows 8 to do the upgrade. Can I boot off the Win 8 DVD and install that way or do I need to start the install from within windows 7? I guess there is no way I can just install Windows 8.1 direct.. can I? thanks m
