upgrade from window 7 ultimate to window 7 pro

jackm84037

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I have a virus on my HP computer and cant get access to the internet. It has been suggested to me to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall windows. I have window 7 ultimate that was installed by the manufactuer currently on my machine and have the key code as well. I would like to re-install window 7 pro to match my other machines. My questions are:
1) How do I wipe out the hard drive
2) Where do I get the window 7 pro upgrade and what type of upgrade do I need and how much are those upgrades?
3) If I don't upgrade, how do I get another version of window 7 ultimate to reinstall on the computer
4) Since I cant access the internet with the current virus can I still get a dvd to re-install the window 7 upgrade? Who has them?
 
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Hi

Usually major brand PC & laptop have recovery partition and a recovery disk builder Windows program

You may be able to run the software to build a DVD set or usb memory stick in safe mode, when most malware is not running

Once you have a Recovery disk set or windows 7 ultimate + driver disk set
(Drivers for motherboard chipset, network , graphics, possibly usb 3 , audio etc)

You can boot up from windows or recovery disk, take option to format hard drive before re installing windows

There are very rare mbr root kit virus which require erasing MBR , before re installing windows

Free Window 7 ISO can be obtained from digital river who act for Microsoft you then burn this to a DVD .
but you need a suitable licence key , I...
Hi

Usually major brand PC & laptop have recovery partition and a recovery disk builder Windows program

You may be able to run the software to build a DVD set or usb memory stick in safe mode, when most malware is not running

Once you have a Recovery disk set or windows 7 ultimate + driver disk set
(Drivers for motherboard chipset, network , graphics, possibly usb 3 , audio etc)

You can boot up from windows or recovery disk, take option to format hard drive before re installing windows

There are very rare mbr root kit virus which require erasing MBR , before re installing windows

Free Window 7 ISO can be obtained from digital river who act for Microsoft you then burn this to a DVD .
but you need a suitable licence key , I don't know if HP key will work

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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