T500 - unable to install Win 7 Ultimate

I purchased a T500 (8GB, 600GB, 2.4) online in January.  I like it very much.  It came with Win 7 Ultimate installed. I suspect the O/S was a "90 day trial version". Recently I have been getting pop-ups that said "Your version of Windows is not valid".  As a result, I validated and purchased a new Win 7 Ultimate version.  It came with a new activation key, and a few days later - DVD media. 
I attempted to install 64 bit, and after several hours received "This version of Windows could not be installed". 
I installed the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, and the report shows - "More info from LENOVO - visit the LENOVO website".
How do I accomplish installing Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) on the T500?  Thank you for your assistance.  jimk2240

I have a few guesses why. I would use Windows Easy Transfer which saves all your non-program files. A clean custom install though really is better. I did both (three actually) and plan to redo one of them.
Show invisible files/folder like AppData and in WET be sure to click on
Custom and Advanced and then make sure to check what you need, but also uncheck any location you don't want.
Windows 7 wants a 100MB recovery partition. It may be trying to use an EFI (FAT) partitiion, or have trouble with Apple's scheme.
I assume and hope Vista is on its own hard drive. But others have been able to do what you want with MacBook and iMac.
If you didn't remove Mac OS boot drive, try that, I always had to when installing Vista on separate drives.

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