Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on HP Envy 14

I just purchased a new HP Envy 14 1150 a few days ago and I was wondering if anyone has removed the HP Windows 7 Home Preimium and did a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate or Profressional?

Would the Warranty be void if i did this?

Mine has a 26GB recovery partition, I was going to wipe the whole hard drive and do the reinstall.

If I did decide to go back to the HP Windows 7 Home Preimium would I just need to use my Recovery Disks?

Thanks!

Im sorry if there is already a existing topic on this, I did a few searches but didn't find anything specific.

 

nah.

shouldn't be an issue.

just make sure you make some recovery discs.

and yeah you'd need to either use the recovery discs or burn a win 7 home premium iso. Used ABR before you formatted and reinstalled win 7 ultimate so you can restore your activations (otherwise you gotta call microsoft to get it reactivated)

OEM windows 7 keys have to be reactivated through phone if you reinstall stuff for whatever reason. I mean, the recovery disc version wouldn't need that.

important edit: BACKUP your swsetup folder.

just do that. put it on an external hdd or a couple dvds. it contains all your drivers, installed software, etc.

Edit the Edit: Also some of that software in swsetup is required if you wanna get your bluetooth drivers to work again since the bluetooth radio defaults to "off forever unless you get lucky" when you reinstall windows.

you have to use the hp wireless assisstant to turn the bluetooth radio on, otherwise the drivers won't install correctly (and the radio won't even show up in the device manager).


the same thing can happen with the realtek ethernet lan port. I've never had it happens to me but I've never unplugged the ethernet cable when reinstalling windows.

there's an option to disable the realtek's deep sleep power saving mode if you've got the latest bios installed (f.13). This option might also be in bios f.12, don't remember.

 

Thanks for the info. I'm in the process of making my 6 HP recovery discs. I will copy the SWSETUP folder on a DVD and a Flash Drive.

Is ABR included with the HP Windows or is that something I need to get separate?

 

ABR must be downloaded separately. I also installed a clean copy of Windows 7 Ultimate over my HP Windows 7 Home Premium. If you have any questions, feel free to do so.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...-hp-laptop-out-box-guide-2-0-windows-7-a.html

ABR and the legal windows 7 iso stuff (among other things are in this thread)

 

Continue discussion in Owner's thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-envy-hdx/502434-official-hp-envy-14-owners-lounge-part-deux.html

Also see the first page of Owner's thread.

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