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Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
Upgrade Win 7 Home Premium running on bootcamp to Windows 7 Professional
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1147214" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Answer to both is yes. You do not have to remove Home Premium in order to upgrade.</p><p></p><p>Make sure you backup your Home Premium version first before upgrading to Pro. Use the Win 7 backup to image option provided. You'll need an external hard drive formatted to NTFS in order to do that. That's what I recommend as it's the safest way in case the upgrade goes blooey.</p><p></p><p>And... be real careful during the upgrade process that you do not overwrite your OS X partition! Make a backup of your OS X partition just in case.</p><p></p><p>Also note that after Pro is installed, the XP mode is run from a VM within Pro.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1147214, member: 46727"] Answer to both is yes. You do not have to remove Home Premium in order to upgrade. Make sure you backup your Home Premium version first before upgrading to Pro. Use the Win 7 backup to image option provided. You'll need an external hard drive formatted to NTFS in order to do that. That's what I recommend as it's the safest way in case the upgrade goes blooey. And... be real careful during the upgrade process that you do not overwrite your OS X partition! Make a backup of your OS X partition just in case. Also note that after Pro is installed, the XP mode is run from a VM within Pro. [/QUOTE]
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