Originally Posted by halfpint

Hi any body good with windows installation ?

My son wants to upgrade from windows XP to windows 7 He has purchased the Windows 7 Home Premium oem

He has downloaded the compatabilty thing from microsoft When he boots from the windows 7 cd it does not boot up and it wont let him press any keys

Does he have to format the hardrive first and just do a fresh instalation as it seems to be incompatible with windows XP

He has tried following the microsoft upgrade instructions and it still just hangs his computer


cheers