Compatability Issues With Windows 7 Upgrade On My m15x

Hello, I bought my m15x in September, and got the free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. I got it in the mail, and did the update, but now my Anti-Virus doesn't work, and I get an Error message everytime I boot it up, so I am wanting to do a CLEAN install of Windows Vista, then I'll upgrade to 7 later, because I don't think I can do a clean install with the Upgrade disc, if I can can somebody tell me how. If I do a clean install, will I be scrued because there is no driver installed to detect WiFi so I can download all my other drivers, or will Windows automaticlly detect that hardware, and work right from the install? Well thanks in advance.

 

All you need to do is pop in the Win 7 DVD and boot from DVD then when you get to the part where you have to install, go ahead and delete the partition and re created. In stall Win 7 and that should do it. No need to install Vista.

I'm pretty sure that even if you dont have anything in the HD you can still install Win 7 upgrade just as long as you have the original Vista that came with your laptop, it should prompt you for the Vista CD/DVD to verify that you had a full version of Vista and Win 7 should go through.

As far as drivers, Win 7 has pretty much all you need to get you started, you're going to need to install Vid drivers then the chipset drivers and so forth.


Edit: Actually I'm wrong. Windows 7 requires that a activated installation of Vista be present before it allows the in-place upgrade option to be used. That said the recreation of the partition should take care of that.

 

Actually Check this out:

http://community.winsupersite.com/b...-windows-7-with-upgrade-media-the-answer.aspx

"I was so hoping to have better news to share, but with all the conflicting reports and my own troubles testing this while on the road, it's been a messy 24 hours. However, after staying up late last night and working through a few different scenarios, I think I do have a (fairly) simple way to clean install Windows 7 with Upgrade media. That is, it should be easier than the old "install it twice" hack that I previously documented for Vista (though that should still work as well).

Put simply, the goal here is to clean install Windows 7 on a virgin, unused PC. You can boot and run Setup with the Upgrade media for Windows 7, but when you go to activate, it won't work.

Thanks to Kevin Fisher and a bit of testing, I have a simple workaround that does work.

After performing the clean install, ensure that there are no Windows Updates pending that would require a system reboot. (You'll see an orange shield icon next to Shutdown in the Start Menu if this is the case).

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

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

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

Open the Start Menu again and type cmd to display a shortcut to the Command Line utility. Right-click this shortcut and choose "Run as administrator." Handle the UAC prompt.

In the command line window, type: slmgr /rearm

Then tap ENTER, close the command line window and reboot. When Windows 7 reboots, run the Activate Windows utility, type in your product key and activate windows.

Voila!"