Upgrading to Windows 7 Professional

[solidsteel]

Ok this is a pretty complicated question. I just built my first computer and I dont have an OS yet. I do have 2 copies on Win XP Home Edition that I found that I may or may not have installed yet. Now I'm also a college student and I was going to buy the Win 7 Professional Upgrade online from digital river or something. It comes with a download for your computer and a disk kit for 13 dollars more that they ship to you. Thing is, this will be a CLEAN INSTALL on a brand new terabyte harddrive. I have read about people doing clean installs with the DISK of Win 7 Upgrade Media, but it seems too complicated. I also know that the best way to upgrade Win XP to Win 7 was to do a clean install and backup your files, yada yada yada. But Im not going to have anything stored on Win XP.

Simply put, I want to install Win XP Home Edition, connect to the internet, download the Win 7 upgrade media. And install that. Comprende?

Can I do that??

P.S. I need Win 7 because I have a blazing fast quad-core gaming computer with a ATI 5870, which is a DX11 card and I want support for that aswell. And XP is starting to disapear.

 

[Bolbi]

You should be just fine. I've installed Win7 from within XP before with no problem. That was to a different partition than XP was on, though. To be safe, I would create create bootable media from your download and use that to install Win7. In case you didn't already know, XP does qualify as a "previous version of Windows" required for the upgrade license.

 

[saran008]

You can upgrade to Win7 very well without any complications from XP as you u said.
Make sure that you have that Win 7 upgrade media in bootable hard copy. otherwise you won't succeed.

All the best!

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Go over to www.sevenforums.com

Look in install section of forum.......has complete step by step instructions to install / upgrade every possible way.