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(Unverified)Oct 23rd 2009 2:26PM

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Question: I'm currently running XP Pro and want to use the student edition to do a clean install of Windows 7. For various reasons I'd like to do this clean install on a new hard drive. Would it be possible to use this method to create a win 7 boot disc and just start everything up with the new drive in the laptop and then use the student key to activate it? I was concerned that windows wouldn't consider this an upgrade and would disallow me from activating it.

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(Unverified)Oct 23rd 2009 2:53PM

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I am not going to try it until tonight, but as far as I can tell from stuff on digitalriver's site, the license is for a full copy of Windows 7.

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(Unverified)Oct 24th 2009 1:36AM

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Absolutely no problems doing this kind of thing. You can boot from the disk made with this "How to" and install to any partition that can be formatted correctly from the disc itself.

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