Can I switch from a German Win 7 Home to win 7 Prof?

I bought my laptop in Austria and the bone House of win 7 is in German. At Christmas, I got a Win 7 Professional English upgrade DVD.  Before diving and upgrade I wanted to see if this is possible without any problems.


Thanks for any help.

Unfortunately, no, cross language upgrades are not supported. If you want to use Windows 7 Professional in English, you must do a custom installation.

Upgrade paths:
Upgrade to Windows 7 from the following operating systems is not supported:

·      Place of cross-language upgrades (for example, en - us en - us) are not supported.

For more details, see the link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579 (WS.10) .aspx

How to make a custom installation:

To please drivers note, applications and hardware will need to be reinstalled:

Boot from the Windows 7 DVD
Click Install now
Accept the license agreement
When the option is displayed to select a type of installation, click (Custom advanced)

Select the disk partition where you want to install Windows 7 click Next.

You will receive the following warning:

The partition you have selected may contain files from a previous Installation of Windows. If so, these files and folders will be moved to a folder named Windows.old. You will be able to access the information in Windows.old, but you will be able to use your previous version of Windows.

(At all costs, do NOT click on anything in Format, deletion or Partition name.) So even do a custom installation, your personal files are still kept. Click OK

The installation program will now begin installation. During installation, your computer will be restarted several times.

Once the installation is complete, you can complete the Out of Box experience as the choice of your laptop, create a username, password, your time zone. You can then proceed to download the latest updates for Windows and reinstall your applications and drivers.

You can then retrieve your personal files from the Windows.old folder and reinstall all of your applications and drivers.

http://notebooks.com/2010/11/09/how-to-recover-documents-music-and-email-after-upgrading-with-the-Windows-old-folder/

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