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This would be the best practice, IMHO, for upgrading an OS even if an
upgrade install were available to you.
The main advantage of this practice is to allow you to identify and solve
problems from drivers to application configurations at install time (of
course, one should do compatibility study first, but you will never know
until try), and if there were problems couldn't be resolved at the time, you
could simply put back the old hard drive and continue to work without
interruptions.
An upgrade install is theoretically faster but if there were problems, one
has to do lots of guesswork and usually ended up doing a clean install.
There is no way for anyone including MS to test all possible system states,
configurations, and scenarios other than limited sets of scenarios, so doing
an upgrade install is pretty much a gamble on your luck.
For major tasks such as an OS upgrade, it is advised to do things right the
first time rather than relying on one's luck.
Hope this helps and good luck.
upgrade install were available to you.
The main advantage of this practice is to allow you to identify and solve
problems from drivers to application configurations at install time (of
course, one should do compatibility study first, but you will never know
until try), and if there were problems couldn't be resolved at the time, you
could simply put back the old hard drive and continue to work without
interruptions.
An upgrade install is theoretically faster but if there were problems, one
has to do lots of guesswork and usually ended up doing a clean install.
There is no way for anyone including MS to test all possible system states,
configurations, and scenarios other than limited sets of scenarios, so doing
an upgrade install is pretty much a gamble on your luck.
For major tasks such as an OS upgrade, it is advised to do things right the
first time rather than relying on one's luck.
Hope this helps and good luck.