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DIGItonium · 10-22-2009, 02:56 PM

Yea, I thought it was strange since e-tailers are selling retail and OEM full versions of the media. I won't get my upgrade media from Amazon until the first week of November. There has been mixed facts/opinions about doing clean install with upgrade media. One says you need to have an activated valid OS installed in order to do in-place and clean installations. That would be inconvenient for those wanting to upgrade the hard drive, but have a valid license from pre-installed OS (no recovery media).

Plus, I'm not sure when my HD 5850 will ever arrive haha. I can build the entire desktop system next week, but the video card is the hold up.

Let me know if you guys can avoid in-place upgrades. That'll give me some hope with this SSD (U330 hard drive is slow as molasses).

10-22-2009, 02:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
DIGItonium A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Kansas Posts: 3,800 Drives: 09 Z34-TT 6MT Rep Power: 42	Yea, I thought it was strange since e-tailers are selling retail and OEM full versions of the media. I won't get my upgrade media from Amazon until the first week of November. There has been mixed facts/opinions about doing clean install with upgrade media. One says you need to have an activated valid OS installed in order to do in-place and clean installations. That would be inconvenient for those wanting to upgrade the hard drive, but have a valid license from pre-installed OS (no recovery media). Plus, I'm not sure when my HD 5850 will ever arrive haha. I can build the entire desktop system next week, but the video card is the hold up. Let me know if you guys can avoid in-place upgrades. That'll give me some hope with this SSD (U330 hard drive is slow as molasses). __________________ Last edited by DIGItonium; 10-22-2009 at 02:58 PM.