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1. I was thinking of buying the Vista premium home 64 upgrade but I usually do a clean install now and then (about once every year) and was wondering if I only can activate an upgrade once?
2. If I go OEM does it wipe the whole HD or just the partition I install it on?
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Personally i'd go with the OEM if you can get it in this way (you usually have to buy at least new mobo to be legally entiteled for it).
OEM version only formats one partition (the one where you want to have Vista installed).
So, if you have one smaller system partition and one huge data partition, you can format just the small one and install Vista on it, while second large one will stay intact.
Thats how i do for ages and it's the least painful way. I'm also using PING to simplify the task of restoring disk image so it goes even faster...
Great, thank you. I will go OEM probably - it's the same price since I am a student, but now that you told me it's ok to do partitions, well that pretty much settles it I guess.
It might be that the OEM version is a bit more expensive that the student actually but if OEM is more convenient I will go with that.
Cheers!
never buy upgrade get oem or oei
and u should probly got BIZ over HP, u loose media center and gain full user controll, full networking functionality, and the backup tool for the same price or $10 more
OEM it is then. Hmm Business you say.... Right, never use media center anyway (hardly ever).
Cheers!