Can upgrade you XP to 7 with the upgrade of student in VMware?  I can't make it work...

Hey guys,.

I'm having a devil of a time with this... I have XP on the partition boot camp, as well as a computer virtual created from it.  I just purchased the upgrade to the Windows 7 home MS student, burned the ISO to a bootable disc, and now I'm stuck.  I have a MBP 13.3 (5.5) running Snow Leopard and VMware Fusion 3.  I tried to start my computer the DVD, only to have the installer of Windows 7 tell me that it doesn't have the correct drivers.  Well, then I start completely in Snow Leopard, open to the top of my bootcamp with merge partition and I can't seem to start from the DVD here, or in the virtual machine either.  So I'm stuck, what am I doing wrong / is there a way and it works?

Thank you!

Win 7 coming to be superimposed on a XP installation isn't a good idea.  You are better to destroy your Boot Camp partition and install a clean copy of 7, Ditto for a new virtual machine in Fusion.   Keep in mind Apple has not released the Boot Camp for Win 7 drivers yet, but the plan at the end of the year.

For the installation of an upgrade disk, you can do this by entering is not your product key during the installation and the next article Paul Thurrot Clean install Windows 7 with upgrade media, if you have only one disk to upgrade you will need to interrupt the use of your XP machine by the upgrade license.

If you want to import your settings from XP, background, bookmarks, desktop icons etc Fund this Microsoft Download: Windows Easy Transfer for transferring from Windows XP (32 bit) to Windows 7.

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