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Originally Posted by spaceman763  Glad to hear you finally got there! I take it the bootable DVD still needs an OS already installed before it installs Windows 7? For example, if my OS ever becomes unstable or fails to boot and I want to reinstall Windows 7, I would have to first install my copy of Windows Vista and then run the Windows 7 Bootable DVD? |
It's a good question. At no point did I notice it 'checking' for an existing install, I simply picked the partition and away it went. It even wrapped up my existing install into a folder named "Windows.old" for me, so I need not have backed everything up first (though I was always going to).
That said, I remember when I installed the equivalent Vista upgrade back in the day I needed an OS already installed. I first tried with a blank hdd but it said I needed an OS, so I had to throw on WinXP before Vista would kick off the install, so it's probably the same situation here.
So for me in the future on a blank drive I guess I'd need to reinstall at least XP to get 7 to install/'upgrade'.