Windows 7 Clean Install

[Guest ksbsr6gn]

Hello, I have a machine at home which I bought from Dell in 2009. It's a Precision T7500 server. I use it for audio and video projects which is one of the things for which it was designed. It came with Vista on it. About a month after I bought it, Dell started mailing out free Windows 7 discs if you had purchased your pc before a certain date, and need-less-to-say, I missed the date by about a week. So, I had to go buy a Windows 7 upgrade at $219 and install it on top of Vista. Since I did that, my pc runs like a dinosaur. I had asked if there was a way to do a Clean install of Windows 7, and I have been told that in order to install Windows 7 again, I have to install the old Vista first, then do the upgrade. Is this true? If it is, it's ridiculous. My primary hard drive has now died, and I would like to install Windows 7 clean on my new hard drive. I know that these Windows 7 discs contain all the data for a clean, full install, and I would like to know why I can't do this. All my experience with upgrades is that they, in some ways, are impediments to a smoothly running machine and to me they seemingly have been. I paid plenty of money for the Dell computer with Vista, and I paid plenty for the Windows 7 upgrade. Now......why should I have to install Vista first and then upgrade? I don't think that's right. I had asked someone on this site before if I could do a clean install, and the response was..."no no no!! Try to Isolate the problem and fix it." Well, it's isolated now for sure: my computer is dead. I'm using my father's pc at the moment.

 

 

How or why can't I install only Windows 7 this time?

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Charles

 

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