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01-27-2011, 12:07 PM
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win 7 upgrade, BB wants 400
Best Buy wants 400 to upgrade my Vista laptop to Win 7. They claim "you WILL run into problems if you do it yourself."
The only reason I am talking to their Geek Squad is that when I bought the Laptop I was grandfathered in for the Win 7 upgrade. They told me they would do the upgrade free when I got the disc. Now they want 400. Can't I just boot windows to the desktop, insert the disc, select upgrade, reboot, done? |
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01-27-2011, 12:16 PM
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What is the exact brand and model of the laptop?
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01-27-2011, 12:17 PM
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01-27-2011, 03:20 PM
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I did my two laptops by zero-filling the hard drive (got rid of the factory junk) booting from a Win 7 64bit.home Premium (oem) then going to the mfgr's site and downloaded the drivers. You need to be sure they have drivers available first.
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01-27-2011, 04:35 PM
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If it runs vista it will run windows 7 just fine, BB are full of crap!! If it is a Toshiba though you might run into issues with AHCI settings as some do not have a way for you to change it to IDE/SATA in the bios so you can install from an OEM windows disk.
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01-27-2011, 04:56 PM
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The win7 disc comes in the mail, and is supposed to be for the computer you purchased. I don't think you can do a clean install, only upgrade. |
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01-28-2011, 05:52 AM
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Still waiting on the brand and model..........
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01-28-2011, 12:20 PM
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Toshiba Part Number: PSAP0U-007007
Toshiba Satellite A500 Notebook - A505-S6960 - PSAP0U007007 - Compare Prices, Price History and User Reviews at PriceSCAN |
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01-28-2011, 12:40 PM
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Do you have this Windows 7 disc?
You can still do a clean install of Windows 7 on that machine. My take is that if Toshiba was willing to offer the upgrade for these units then Windows 7 will install and run without major aggravations. Note that you will lose the recovery partition if you do a clean install, but if you're changing OSes, then you will no longer need that partition anyway.
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01-28-2011, 01:03 PM
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10-16-2009 Windows How to Upgrade Toshiba laptops to Windows 7 10-16-2009 Windows How to Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 with the Toshiba Upgrade Assistant 10-16-2009 Windows Download Toshiba Drivers and Utilities for Windows 7 |
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