At 02:59 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
Careful with wiping and trying again. Windows 8 auto-activates and you
might not be able to get past that.
well I already did go back to Win 7... so you are saying Win 8 might
not activate the next time... I went back within an hour so I don't
know if it had time to do this.
That said, there is no real "upgrade"
path from windows 7 to windows 8. All software will need to be
reinstalled. It tries to migrate things like my documents and stuff, but
even that isn't that great, with it losing your desktop settings, etc.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Winterlight
<winterli...@winterlight.org>wrote:
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> what instructions?
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> At 01:46 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
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>> 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
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>
>> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:19 PM
>> Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
>>
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>> 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
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