what happens at the end of the windows 7 beta?

[Adam K]

when my beta copy expires (i think it's august?), will i be able to upgrade to a retail copy with relatively little hassle, or will i have to start from scratch again when i go to install windows 7 retail?

cheers.

 

[alexbleubolt]

start from scratch

 

[Adam K]

are you 100% positive there is no way of upgrading to the retail version without wiping the machine and starting again? it's just an annoyance having to install everything again.

 

[CrippsCorner]

99.9% sure unfortunately.

Everything I'm putting on whilst running 7, I'm chucking on my Vista partition so when it comes to reformatting I won't need to actually change much