[VISTA] Vista OEM upgrade to Win7

TheBear21 · 26th October 2009, 4:48 PM

I built a PC for a friend not long ago and I orderred a copy of Vista HP with the Win 7 upgrade. Now I am trying to help them out by sorting this for them, but I didn't keep the info on how to do the upgrade, and they can't find it.

Anyone able to help me with this?

My google efforts seem to show that I need to process this request from the PC with Visa installed. Is this correct?

Cause......Another little problem I may have. I thought I would be smart, and never actually installed Vista and put the Win7 RC on their PC. If the request needs to processed on the PC with Vista I could have some problems. Maybe create a partition, install it. Order Win7 and delete partition. Seems like a lot of effort if that will be the case.

Once I get the Win7 media, I shouldn't have a problem doing the RC to HP upgrade trick?

26th October 2009, 4:48 PM	#1
TheBear21 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Central QLD Posts: 1,755	Vista OEM upgrade to Win7 I built a PC for a friend not long ago and I orderred a copy of Vista HP with the Win 7 upgrade. Now I am trying to help them out by sorting this for them, but I didn't keep the info on how to do the upgrade, and they can't find it. Anyone able to help me with this? My google efforts seem to show that I need to process this request from the PC with Visa installed. Is this correct? Cause......Another little problem I may have. I thought I would be smart, and never actually installed Vista and put the Win7 RC on their PC. If the request needs to processed on the PC with Vista I could have some problems. Maybe create a partition, install it. Order Win7 and delete partition. Seems like a lot of effort if that will be the case. Once I get the Win7 media, I shouldn't have a problem doing the RC to HP upgrade trick? __________________ flickr \| Soundcloud Last edited by DiGiTaL MoNkEY; 26th October 2009 at 7:41 PM.