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CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO UPDATE
CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO DRIVER
CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO UPGRADE
CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO FULL
CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE

This presented me with a neat listing of all the software that used to be installed in the old computer.

I then clicked on START, typed easy transfer reports, and clicked on that application.

This immediately started installation of all my old files and settings.

With the external hard drive containing my old files connected, I double clicked on the file WindowsEasyTransfer.MIG.

When Windows 7 reboots, run the Activate Windows utility, type in your product key and activate windows.

Then tap ENTER, close the command line window and reboot.

In the command line window, type: slmgr /rearm.

Right-click this shortcut and choose "Run as administrator." Handle the UAC prompt.

Open the Start Menu again and type cmd to display a shortcut to the Command Line utility.

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/.

Then, open regedit.exe with Start Menu Search and navigate to:.

(You'll see an orange shield icon next to Shutdown in the Start Menu if this is the case).

After performing the clean install, ensure that there are no Windows Updates pending that would require a system reboot.

As it turned out, this was not necessary if you will follow the steps provided by THURROTT’s: That is why I readied the 3 licensed copies of XP and 1 Vista Business just incase.

CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO UPGRADE

This is the option that allows for a clean install of the OS, which is what I wanted.Įven the instructions that came with the DVD of Windows 7 detailed the need to have a running XP or Vista in order to activate the UPGRADE version. Note that I selected CUSTOM installation when prompted. Simple Help provided a very elaborate step by step guide of this process. This step is basically a repeat of my previous installation using the RC. This step effectively erased all the files containing the old Windows 7 RC. On the Mac side, I fired-up bootcamp assistant and started with the repartitioning of the MAC HD into a single partition. Windows 7 Home Premium (UPGRADE) Installation

I also insured that all my software installers are on hand.Ģ.

I saved most of my files and settings to an external drive using Windows 7 RC Windows Easy Transfer.

CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO UPDATE

The activated version of the Windows 7 Home Premium (UPGRADE) was up and running in the AIR in under an hour, exclusive of the extra 2 hours to install my fav software and to get all Windows Update downloaded and installed.

So how did it go? I can tell you that everything went without a hitch. Luckily, I found a very helpful guide courtesy of PAUL THURROTT’s Supersite. I had to search the web for the workaround in installing the UPGRADE version which is what I got.

CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO FULL

I did not have any problems installing the release candidate before, but that was a full working version. Since the Release Candidate (RC) installed in all of my computers are good until March 2010, I decided to install the first of the 3 copies in the Macbook Air under bootcamp. Refer to the following message from Ubuntu's mailing list if you want to learn more.My Amazon order of pre-release Windows 7 Home Premium UPGRADE arrived on schedule last week.

CLEAN INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON MACBOOK PRO DRIVER

Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.Īll these warnings are safe to ignore, and your drive should be able to boot without any problems. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. Is this a GPT partition table? Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. dev/xxx contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.Ī consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as: