wasn't it possible in the past to do a clean install with a ungrade
disk and only have to put a previous OS disk in the optical drive ? I
know I have done this but it may have been with XP or even 3.11
seems like it was possible to create a file in the root ( forgot what
) and install went fine. file could even be empty.
showing my age :P(
fp
At 09:12 AM 11/19/2013, Tim Lider Poked the stick with:
I have some info I would like to add.
When I did an upgrade from Windows 7 there was a lot of problems. I
decided to
do a clean install of Windows 8 Pro.
What I did was first was use Windows Easy Transfer on the current install of
Windows 8 Pro. I only copied the profiles I needed.
Second I installed Windows 8 Pro, asked it to format the C Drive.
After Windows
8 Pro was installed I used the Windows File Transfer Wizard to put the Profile
and settings back. It worked like a charm, it even told me what Programs I
needed to install :) I then used the free key for Windows Media Center and it
ran perfectly.
Regards,
On November 18, 2013 at 5:32 PM "Robert Martin Jr." <lopaka_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Just google clean win 8 upgrade install. Lots of sites have the tutorial.
>
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> lopaka
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> ________________________________
> From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>
> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade install.
>
>
>
> what instructions?
>
> At 01:46 PM 11/18/2013, you wrote:
> >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 <winterli...@winterlight.org>
> >To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> >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
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
timli...@adv-data.com
Date: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
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