Cheapest & best place to get OS Windows 7 home edition

Transactionumber

Lincoln_Imp wrote: »

http://www.software4students.co.uk/
Any students in your household ?

Hi these are upgrades and I have not got an OS at all , I thought this would not work? I have searched the site and can't seem top find just windows 7 ?? Leachy

Lincoln_Imp

leachy wrote: »

Hi these are upgrades and I have not got an OS at all , I thought this would not work? I have searched the site and can't seem top find just windows 7 ?? Leachy

Yep sorry about that ,just noticed
Will keep looking round

steveE2

leachy wrote: »

Hi these are upgrades and I have not got an OS at all , I thought this would not work? I have searched the site and can't seem top find just windows 7 ?? Leachy

As robmar0se says you can still do a clean install even with these upgrade discs.

amonra

I go with Lincoln imp, the student deal is great. If you haven't got any friends or family who qualify, go down to the nearest pub and buy a round and ask around, there are lots of students who are short of cash !

wapow

1. Could someone advise how to do a Full OS clean install with upgrade discs?
2. Use the student route as mentioned! Best thing!
3. For others -

You can get the bootable Rom to convert to ISO of Win7 SP1 All Editions. Then all you need is buy a licence key for £10 or whatever.

JamesK10

1.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media-and-product-key-on-formatted-or-empty-blank-hard-drive/

Is the link that came up the last time, but I didn't even have to do the second part about making a new ISO etc - whether I was using the retail Home Edition upgrade (green box) or the 3-Licence family pack upgrade (orange box), I inserted the disk, formatting the drive when those hard disks were brand new (otherwise doing a quick format), ran the installer once but didn't bother to enter the Licence key or activate.

Then I put the W7 DVD back in the drive and had it install itself all over again - and let that second installation download the service pack and all updates, put in the Licence key and activated it - it's worked on both editions.

The only time I've ever needed older discs was when XP was still in use and you had to try to get Serial ATA drivers installed to allow the newer optical drives to work, that's not been an issue since Vista (5yrs).

The green box copy came from Play, the Family pack from Amazon.

Transactionumber

steveE2 wrote: »

As robmar0se says you can still do a clean install even with these upgrade discs.

You can get a full install with these upgrade discs then I think this is the way to go !!! Thanks.

m5rcc

Clean install via upgrade disc

wapow

Cheers for the linkys guys!

TakeThis

wapow wrote: »

1. Could someone advise how to do a Full OS clean install with upgrade discs?
2. Use the student route as mentioned! Best thing!
3. For others -

You can get the bootable Rom to convert to ISO of Win7 SP1 All Editions. Then all you need is buy a licence key for £10 or whatever.

?? What on earth....?