Windows 7 upgrade using an XP upgrade disc to verify during clean install.

tweeter

Hi peeps,
In the past I installed an XP upgrade clean install and verified it during the installation with an earlier version of Windows. If I do a clean install of Windows 7 using an upgrade disc, will the XP upgrade disc suffice to verify the installation of Windows 7 or will any of my earlier full versions like 95/2000 do as well.

Thanks for any help in advance.

m5rcc

Pardon my ignorance, why do you need to verify it?

tweeter

You have to verify the installation when doing a clean install when installing an XP upgrade disc, so I thought I'd do a clean install using Windows 7 upgrade and use the XP upgrade disc to verify it during installation - hope that makes sense.

m5rcc

Haven't installed XP in yonks. Well if there is an OS already on board and you only have a Win 7 upgrade disc, then you wont need to re-verify, as Win 7 will just install on top of the old files.

Better to have a new install if you had one....

tweeter

I would like to do a clean install with an Windows 7 upgrade on an harddrive that has been NTFS formatted in the past, and verify it during the installation process using an XP upgrade disc or use Windows 98/2000 full versions to verify it during the installation process if possible.

System

To upgrade from XP to Win 7 you must do a clean install. However there is no requirement to verify using an XP disc. Do not enter a licence key when it first asks, let it complete it's install.

m5rcc

tweeter wrote: »

I would like to do a clean install on an harddrive that has been NTFS formatted in the past.

Well XP is NTFS compatiable, so you need to make sure that XP is installed on an NTFS disk. Is it at the moment? I think you'll find that you cannot format the disk on an XP upgrade and 95/98/2000/ME is not NTFS compatible.

tweeter

But when I installed an XP upgrade on a formatted harddive in the past, I used a full Windows 98 disc , to verify it during the installation process without going through all the trouble of installing Windows 98 first.

JamesK10

Right, I've got the box for my Windows 7 Family Pack here and the spine states "All Editions of Windows XP and Vista Allow You To Upgrade", but then on the back it also says "If you are upgrading from Windows XP you will need to back up your files, perform a clean install and then reinstall your existing files, settings and programs".

So what you want to do is perfectly feasible according to Microsoft, but all you have to ensure is that the optical drives will work when running the initial install (since the HDD will be blank you should get a message like "Press any Key to Boot from CD-ROM", and go from there with XP first of all).

Your other choice as mentioned above is to use nothing but the Windows 7 disc, don't enter the licence key, and when that finishes, just put the DVD back in the drive and install all over again.

m5rcc

JamesK10 wrote: »

Right, I've got the box for my Windows 7 Family Pack here and the spine states "All Editions of Windows XP and Vista Allow You To Upgrade", but then on the back it also says "If you are upgrading from Windows XP you will need to back up your files, perform a clean install and then reinstall your existing files, settings and programs".

So what you want to do is perfectly feasible according to Microsoft, but all you have to ensure is that the optical drives will work when running the initial install (since the HDD will be blank you should get a message like "Press any Key to Boot from CD-ROM", and go from there with XP first of all).

We know its feasible, but the OP wants to clean install on NTFS only with upgrade discs only.

JamesK10

And using a Windows 7 upgrade disc that will definitely work, the family pack is my second version of win7 home premium upgrade, the one before being the green box upgrade, rather than the full price "start from scratch" version.