This would mean the initial installation would have required a qualifying OS such as XP or Vista. What did you have and how did you do the installation? A clean installation is always going to need the appropriate drivers and it's probable that some have been updated since you did the first installation. You'd need to create a list of what hardware you have and acquire those drivers. There's not much that's automatic. With the clean installation, Win 7 will be doing a lot of patches to itself but you don't want to use it for driver updates.
I installed Win 7 Upgrade when it first came out several months ago. It's about time to clean out the hard drive and reinstall Win 7. What is the easiest way to do a clean install.
Initially, I had to hunt down a lot of Win 7 64 bit drivers because they weren't available from the manufacturers when Win 7 first came out. Is this going to be an automatic process this time, or am I going to have to visit the manufacturers websites and download the correct drivers?
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