upgrade disk

Hi all, We have a legacy Fujitsu Server with just 4x HDD bays (4x disks) - we have 2 mirrored arrays and one of the array is small and we need to upgrade the disks with larger disks but retaining all the data inside. As far as I know the below procedure should work well: - TAKE A FULL BACKUP...

Good morning. Back in 2009 I purchased a dell laptop with XP. I upgraded it to 7home premium. Now being almost 9 years old there is almost no space at all left,even after using duplicate fingers and such. So I copied its entire contents to a external hard drive and am planning to wipe out...

Hi I have a question. I bought my computer a few years ago. It came with windows xp, had a free upgrade to windows 7. I then purchased a windows 8 pro upgrade disk, installed that, and now I am running windows 8.1. Fast forward a few years, I've changed my computer case and lost everything...

I run Windows 8.1 as a Parallels virtual machine. Earlier this week - after an IMac hard drive crash - I had to re-install Windows. I have both Windows XP pro and a Windows 8 upgrade disk. My question is this. If I have to do this again, is there a workaround that will enable me to install...

I have windows 7 upgrade discs I bought and used to upgrade from vista. The pc in question has now been scrapped. Can I use the disc for a clean install to replace Xp on another PC? If so, will I have to do something about registration with Microsoft?

Hi all, The heading says it all. I have a legitimate new Win8Pro Upgrade dvd with serial. Can I clean install Win8Pro with this from scratch, or do I have to upgrade over my existing Win7 Home Premium x64 Laptop? After reading some posts on the forum I see that a clean install of Win8 would be...

I am a real dummy with this stuff. I bought 2 used computers at auction. They are Dell OptiPlex 760, 3.16 GHz, Core2Duo, 4Gb Ram. They have been sanitized and have no operating system on them. They originally had Windows Vista on them. I have been to EBay and there are a lot of products...

On my desktop computer I did a clean install of Windows 7 off the official MS Win 7 upgrade disc that I used to upgrade from XP. I did the many rounds of Windows Upgrades, etc. Then started to install only the programs I use and only from trusted sources. Everything was going smooth and just...

Sometimes you just need to do a clean install . Unfortunately, the Windows 8 Upgrade can throw you an error when you try to activate the operating system afterwards. Lifehacker reader uncommoner shows us a workaround for this issue. More*» * Source: Yahoo! News

Hi everyone. So I bought a copy of windows 8 pro today at Best Buy. After I got home and installed the OS(I did a clean install), come to find out only AFTER I finished installing the OS it said that it wont activate because I did the clean install with an upgrade disc. The is no indication its...

I am going to be buying a new laptop in the next few weeks, but would like to query about upgrading from the shipped 32-Bit OS to a 64-Bit version. The laptop I am considering is the HP Pavilion DM1-4020sa (4GB, 500GB, 1.65GHz), which comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 32. My questions are...

No doubt this has been answered in this forum MULTIPLE times already, but I am in a bit of a quandary and need to get my laptop operating quickly - so I apologize if I'm trying to 'short-cut' doing the research to find the answer in some previous post, but I need my laptop back fast ...

Posted in incorrect forum: Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSoD 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hardware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for...

I’m having some problems with my PC, and suspect it MAY be related to Windows 7. Yesterday I was using my PC and it started crashing. It would either freeze, show me a blue screen error and reboot, or just flat out reboot. I believe the problem is one of three possible things: Windows 7...

Can somebody please explain the Producy Key and ID key and the validation process please because i am having difficulty in validating my copy of windows. I will explain because I have messed up somewhere trying to be clever: Firstly ..I purchased a upgrade win 32/64 discs with key but found...

Hi I orignally had windows 7 professional 64 bit on my laptop. I had a 10 Gb partition, which i divided in SWAP and / mount to install Ubuntu Linux. My computer now loads into Grub loader. All is well, its just now i want to get rid of Linux. (I will install it on desktop and mess around with...

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...

Wont run windows, turn on and itll hit blue screen or try and fix and itll look like its loading windows vista and freeze... so im guessing it still has parts of vista and 7 on it which is making it f'ed up.. cant reinstall, all i have is upgrade disc what do i do?

I have tried to install windows 7 64 bit on a asus k50ij running vista 64 bit. I am installing from an upgrade disk that was mailed to me because i bought the laptop shortly before the release. The installation always hangs at Copying Windows Files 0% I ran the upgrade advisor and uninstalled...

I have the upgrade disk/s for 3 systems (family pack) ....sys1 was fine and successful.....in the process of updating system 2, the upgrade install required SP1 be installed on the existing Vista S/W......well, the system crashed during that process and the system failed to boot but offered a...