Win 7 on W8

Time to upgrade. Does panny have a clean install disk with drivers for the W8?

 

You will need to install everything manually unless your COA is W7 on the bottom... I don't think it is.

 

It's a pain in the well known place, to go from scratch,and install every last driver in exactly the right order and boot after every driver. But after I did it, I used an old HDD and made a clone.
Then I installed every program I need, did every update and setting to my liking and made a second clone on a (128Gb) SSD I had laying around. Every 6 months orso I take the SSD out and start with a perfect clean install without any $h!t I accumulated. Works like a dream!

 

Thanks guys. I have the XP and Vista recovery DVDs but no 7 license.

 

Vista and Xp was the only factory options. BUT

Windows® 7 Support and Upgrade Information | TOUGHBOOK | TOUGHPAD | Panasonic Global Notebook PC

They did offer windows 7 update drivers from their website. (see above link)

 

So if you can get a valid license for W7, and you have some time, you're good to go
(are licenses for W7 transferable?)

 

if they are licensed to the PC from a vendor Dell, HP, Panny, etc. with a oem sticker likely no. It gets into a grey area when you have say a dell with win 7 that died and you use the dell oem on another dell that had say xp. It will probably work but again gray area. Win 7 retail works on anything you own as long as it is only installed on one machine at a time.

Note that the sticker is usually never required as the bios has flag on oem machines to accept the install with no activation, unless like the dell example above the xp dell bios had no flag for Win 7 then the sticker number would come in handy.