<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Unfortunately dont have an upgrade disk as the Win7 is OEM installed on a new computer.<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 22:12, Todd Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 17:47, Todd Walton <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Sep 21, 2011 5:31 PM, "Dave Hala Jr" <<a href="mailto:dave@58ghz.net">dave@58ghz.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > You should be to do a dd onto an external drive then convert the dd to a<br>
>> > virtualbox .vdi image<br>
>><br>
>> There's a trick to this. You have to delete a registry key I think. I can<br>
>> look it up when I get home. Unless someone else knows what I'm talking<br>
>> about.<br>
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</div><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_use_your_windows_7_upgrade_disk_fresh_pc?page=0,1" target="_blank">http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_use_your_windows_7_upgrade_disk_fresh_pc?page=0,1</a><br>
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It's the instructions for using an upgrade-only disk to do a fresh<br>
install. It's what I had to use once on a Windows disk-to-vm<br>
conversion. After doing the conversion, Windows will probably throw a<br>
fit about changed hardware. I believe if you can alter the registry<br>
like so, it'll fix it.<br>
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--<br>
Todd<br>
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