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Longhorn · **Post subject:** Windows 7 Edition **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:56 am

Is Windows 7 PDC Ver able to change it the edition?

DVD: \ sources \ product. ini

Although it is likely to be possible if I see the file of the top/

Longhorn · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:13 am

When I see the middle of a/the DVD to the sources folder

DVD\sources

Install_Windows Vista BUSINESS. clg
Install_Windows Vista BUSINESSN. clg
Install_Windows Vista HOMEBASIC. clg
Install_Windows Vista HOMEBASICN. clg
Install_Windows Vista HOMEPREMIUM. clg
Install_Windows Vista STARTER. clg
Install_Windows Vista ULTIMATE. clg

There is the above file

I try to replace it with the clg file of Vista if it is
However, it failed
Whether or not why?

Seems to there is a problem in Setup. exe
As analyze from now on and be possible the Edition change at the time of installation it tries to do

XDude · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:48 am

It installs as ultimate. MS is problary going to reduce the number of editions due to comfused users.

vajlent · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:05 pm

I'm trying to install it on a VM machine but it doesn't work?

Is it better to install it on a partition and dual boot with Vista?
-in that case how much space do I need on that partition?

fzajac · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:06 pm

vajlent wrote:

I'm trying to install it on a VM machine but it doesn't work?

Try adding different HD type to the VM...
If it still doesn't work try to format the HD with XP's disk (NTFS).

OG · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:22 pm

From my experience, dual boot aint gonna happen (even with BCDEDIT). If you want to have multiple OS with this version of Win 7 its a BIOS boot order change each time or cable swapping. Access to existing Windows partitions from Win 7 also seems to be a no go though you can access the Win 7 partition from XP or Vista.

swellhead · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:51 pm

i had same problem with VMware I had to use Virtual PC

moonlit · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:02 pm

OG wrote:

From my experience, dual boot aint gonna happen (even with BCDEDIT). If you want to have multiple OS with this version of Win 7 its a BIOS boot order change each time or cable swapping. Access to existing Windows partitions from Win 7 also seems to be a no go though you can access the Win 7 partition from XP or Vista.

Dual booting Win7 6801 with Vista RTM doesn't seem to be a problem. As for other drives, I was missing only one of my HDDs after installing 6801 but all it took to bring it back was assigning a drive letter to it in Disk Management. All my other drives (drive 1: Vista partition + data partition, drive 2: data partition) appeared as they should do without my intervention.

vajlent wrote:

I'm trying to install it on a VM machine but it doesn't work?

Is it better to install it on a partition and dual boot with Vista?
-in that case how much space do I need on that partition?

Dual booting seems to work fine with Vista, and after installation about 9.3GB of the drive was used but that included a 2GB hibernation file and a 2GB pagefile. Officially I think 15GB is required but I don't have a link with a reference... 15-20GB should do just fine though.

OG · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:17 pm

I got no dual boot option at all. Whether that has anything to do with the fact my primary is a raid array I dont know, but it's supported in Vista so assumed it would be by Windows 7. I did have the option to install to it so it was obviously recognised during installation but I had no boot options after installing and the only options I had in disk manager was to initialize and format the raid array. The only way I could boot back to Vista was by unpluging the sata cable for the HDD 7 was installed on.

nikhil14b · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:43 pm

its ultimate

hounsell · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:54 pm

nikhil14b wrote:

its ultimate

Wrong. It's Starter, Home Basic, Home Basic N, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business and Business N.
It just installs Ultimate by default, though this is easily fixed.

bibo · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:53 pm

Did someone found how to make windows 7 work in vmware workstation?
cause me it isn'T working...

hounsell · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:38 pm

bibo wrote:

Did someone found how to make windows 7 work in vmware workstation?
cause me it isn'T working...

Worked fine here, just used 'Windows Vista' default settings...

Kenneth · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:53 pm

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Is Windows 7 PDC Ver able to change it the edition?

DVD: \ sources \ product. ini

Although it is likely to be possible if I see the file of the top/

Delete ei.cfg. It'll then let you choose. :wink:

zamadatix · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:30 pm

is there any difference in the versions other than the title displayed?

Kenneth · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:54 pm

The features, such as Windows Media Center, it's in Vista Home Premium yet it's not in home basic.

zamadatix · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:12 pm

i mean if i just let it install as ultimate is there any software i could get from business?

seika · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:26 pm

they test beta's with ultimate edition by default so you can test all the features and make sure they arent buggy.

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