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    T400 Win7 upgrade ed., HDD upgrade

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Gigiya, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. Gigiya

    Gigiya Notebook Guru

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    I've taken advantage of my last few months of being a college student by snagging the Digital River Windows 7 Professional upgrade edition for $30. I'm wanting to upgrade the hard drive on my T400 at the same time I install Win7. Would I have to install Vista on the new HDD for the upgrade edition to detect it and install?

    Additionally, this is the HDD I'm looking at buying:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280

    Thoughts?
     
    Gigiya, Oct 27, 2009
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  2. intoflatlines

    intoflatlines Notebook Consultant

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    To be honest, I booted from upgrade DVD and didn't install through the OS so maybe you could do that on the new HDD?
     
    intoflatlines, Oct 27, 2009
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  3. Gigiya

    Gigiya Notebook Guru

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    I've read that it scans the hard drive for a current Windows install.
     
    Gigiya, Oct 27, 2009
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  4. intoflatlines

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    When I put the DVD in, all it did was ask me which partition to put it on, during which I deleted the partition that my current Windows was installed on, and installed on that free space.
     
    intoflatlines, Oct 27, 2009
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