Hello. I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed on my MBP i7 2010. Recently, Windows has been running very slowly especially during startup. It takes a long long time from booting to real use. I had no such problem before. Besides, I want to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional. What is the proper way of doing so? Shall I erase the original Windows partition under the Bootcamp utility, create a new windows partition and then install a full version of 7? Alternatively, shall I get an upgraded version from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 and then do the upgrade under Windows? Thanks.
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Best way to upgrade from Windows Vista to 7 on the MBP
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I did an in-place upgrade of Vista -> W7 32 on my MacBook, but given your slow performance, I would just do a clean install using your W7 upgrade media.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media.aspx
Boot your Mac holding C or Alt/Option with the W7 disc in the SuperDrive, and just reformat your existing Vista partition during the install.
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