Install with win7 home premium disk and use win7 upgrade key?

[Bagmoon]

Here's the situation. I've acquired a computer that has a Win7 home premium 64bit license linked to the motherboard. I would like to do a fresh install of that OS to a new SSD.

But, the previous owner arrived at his license through an upgrade. He did an initial 32 bit Vista installation using a disk he had, then immediately used the Anytime Upgrade option to move to Win7 Home Premium 64. I don't believe that he bothered activating the Vista installation, and he bought the Win7 upgrade license as a part of a 3 license family pack.

He was kind enough to burn me copies both of the Vista and Win7 Upgrade disks that he used, and give me the Win7 upgrade product key. However, I have Windows 7 Home Premium disks already - one I downloaded from Digital River and burned myself, and one I got from my local computer store.

I would like to avoid the hassle of installing Vista (ick..) and then upgrading it. I'd like to just use my existing Win7 Home Premium disk to do the install. Will the Upgrade key work directly with the Win7 disk?

Thanks for your time.

 

[postmortemIA]

Install it twice: run upgrade from freshly installed Win 7 as soon as you finish the first installation. That's the common trick to skip the upgrade from the older OS.

 

[bbhaag]

Since its an upgrade key I think you're stuck with installing Vista first then upgrading to 7. Honestly man the kernel ain't that different so I wouldn't worry about it.

You could always try calling support and explaining the situation. It has been my experience that this will work 1 out of 9 times.

 

[Underclocked]

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