Obviously no one can predict the future but answer based on past experience When you get an own license it's tied to the motherboard.If you upgrade it with a better upgrade only version (retail version) does it become a full license or is it still oem?
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I have one desktop computer with Vista and one laptop also with vista (both with legit keys & activation)
Question is: can the upgrade DVD be used on the two machine ?
Will it require the old vista key, the new win7 one, or both ?
i built a compaq laptop board by board a few years ago.the laptop came with a windows xp professional sticker, but no install disc or hard drive.i want to know if i can upgrade the license number without a previous installation of windows xp professional.
View 8 Replies View RelatedTwo years ago I bought a laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium installed. Now I would like to know if it's possible to upgrade my HDD and keep my OEM license, and how?
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View 5 Replies View Relatedim planning to get a win 7 pro upgrade license, because they dont offer home premium any more, i just want to make sure that i shouldn't have much if any problem installing it, as im putting a new ssd with no windows on it at all in it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedJust wondering how this is going to go. Right now my comp is running XP Pro which i obtained from my IT department. Im a federal employee so the disc i have is a federal corporate license. Today i purchased W7 Pro and a new 1Tb hard drive. Im goint to make my old hard drive backup storage and put the W7 OS on the new drive. Whats the best way to go about it?
When i install the new hard drive and boot from the W7 disc is it just going to prompt me to put in the XP disc? Or does it just ask for a valid XP license key? Everytime i have installed this XP on a new comp it never asks me for a CD key...i think it has something to do with the fact it is a government license and is unlimited regarding the number of comps it can be put on. If i need a key i guess ill have to wait till i get back to work and get one from the IT department.
I once did a fresh install of an Home Premium ISO image on an Asus G series laptop by using an ISO image and the Windows license tied to the computer. I am wondering if the same thing could work with an Ultimate 64 bit ISO image and a student upgrade license of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit if I wish to have a fresh install of Ultimate.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy laptop has a windows 7 home basic license before then my friend told me that he can upgrade my home basic to windows ultimate for free!! wow then i say yes ok that's cool, to cut the story short he upgrade my laptop's os. then 3 weeks after microsoft send me a message that my os is not genuine or couterfeit. damn. is there anyway i can bring back license OS?
View 1 Replies View Relatedit just shutdown automatically while watching film or doing other thing without any warning? i am using window 7?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo, after going through every trick in the book, I was unable to make browsing happen on a 64bit Windows 7 (any and every browser would randomly hang the system completely), so my only option was to switch to 32bit.The first installation failed and got stuck in a black screen with a frozen cursor. After a restart the installer told me I could continue the installation after a reset, so I did that, only to be greeted with the same message. This happened over and over a few times, so I figured it's not going to work and I'll have to make a fresh install. Then something mysterious happens and I'm not yet sure what exactly happened. In any case, the end result was that I still had some of my 64bit installation remaining including some files I downloaded while trying to make it work in addition to my 32bit installation on my other drive (which I was not planning on formatting). The only explanation I can come up with is that I somehow managed to format the wrong drive, not once, but twice.
And this is where my current problem begins. I'd very much like to format the drive with the 64bit stuff, but Windows won't let me. I've tried doing it from the command prompt but it says "Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode." I'm the system admin! How can I not have sufficient privileges? And what is "elevated mode"? Ok, so on we go to the Disc Manager. This time I'm greeted with "Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk.".Actually, now that I think about it, I suppose booting from the CD might do the trick. Still, for some reason the installer takes its time starting (was much faster in for the 64bit version) and I'm getting tired of playing with the boot order, anyway.So, I'm wondering if there is any way to format a disc with system files from another Windows installation without going through the CD boot.
Fresh copy of windows and it's giving me a BSOD. Attached are the files from the SF Diag tool.ystem spec:AMD Phenom II X6Ripjaw 8GB DDR3 1600 MSI 890FXA-GD65EVGA GTX 580 HD
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have to send my drive in to OCZ for an RMA and I asked how long it would take because I can't wait too long for the RMA to happen.So I said I could still return the drive to the store, however the tech support rep., said I could use my recovery back up and put it on another drive as long as the other components of my build are the same.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've always wondered if background tasks continue to run while the PC is in sleep mode or hibernation. Are there actions that I can take to wake it up? What happens if I'm running a scan and the PC goes into hibernation or sleep mode?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMY Laptop wont start windows normally and keeps on recommending start up repair. If I launch the repair, will it be automatically reformat? will I lost files on it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBSOD-s happen only while playing a flash video. Error is related to ntoskrnl.exe+7cc40, While playing games everything works fine (tried COD Modern Warfare 3, newerst Skyrim). Drivers are updated a don`t have a clue whats wrong?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWindows 7 x64 Fully updated. System has passed 8 hours of memtest with no errors. Have run CHKDSK /F on all the drives. When I hit shutdown or log off about once every 3-5 days I get this BSOD ntkrnlmp.exe
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a computer less than a year old all built by me and a friend.
It has windows 7 x64 ultimate
echo star 680wPSU
AMD phenom 2 x6 1090t 3.2GHz processor
asus m4a87td usb3
2x 4g ram
MSI n560 gtx-ti 2g(just installed this yesterday thinking my video card went out but i am still having same issue)
Useing on board sound card.
Its been a little while since I've been here and I have a quick question about this new fangled Windows 7. I have it and Windows XP installed as a dual boot on my machine currently. However, I'm ready to get rid of XP entirely and switch to 7. I have a new SSD coming and I could just clone the drive but instead I was wondering about doing a fresh install on the new drive and just formatting the old one.
View 2 Replies View RelatedNow first off, I would like to make myself clear; I am not attempting to break any laws/rules, I am attempting to find out the rules so as NOT to break them. My question is this: If I make a virtual machine of Windows 7 with 5 users, on a Linux server, and have 5 Linux machines hooked to it, would I be breaking any MS licensing laws if each "Windows user" accessed that Virtual machine from their Linux machine? And to be honest I'm not even certain the Virtual machines can be accessed this way or if they have to reside on the actual Linux client
View 2 Replies View RelatedI bought the retail version of Win 7 Home Premium when it came out, and put it on my laptop.I'm now building a PC for my parents, and I was thinking about transferring the Win 7 install to the new PC.I still have the Vista for my laptop that it came with, but would probably want to keep Win 7 on it until i'm happy that the PC is working ok.Having never transferred licences between PCs? Will the two versions run concurrently (I know its a license for one, but i'd like to know what happens!) or will the 'old' version stop working correctly?
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View 0 Replies View RelatedI am planning to retire my laptop but I how do I cancel the Windows 7 registered license which I bought and installed it separately?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recently had a laptop have the screen destroyed, I am tired of having that laptop connected to monitor and am planning on throwing that hard drive into a new build pc desktop (I understand that the hard drive is fairly slow). What sort of fun gyrations do I have to go through to get the copy of windows registered in my name to be recognized by MS to update and run properly with the mostly new hardware?
View 38 Replies View RelatedI want to replace my current SATA hard drive with an SSD hard drive. I do not want to buy another Windows 7 license.Is this possible using "ordinary" techniques, or do I have to use something like Acronis.
View 1 Replies View Relatedsome days ago my laptop stopped working, because the HDD has physical damage, and i have to change it for a new one, but i was wondering how i can do to recover my win 7 license?,there must be some way to recover the license that rightfully belongs to me,at the moment is impossible to access the disk info, because of the damage damaged, the laptop does not bring any installation disk, because the system recovery was in the partition on the same disk.
View 8 Replies View Relatedjust can't activate my window 7 even with the license
View 2 Replies View RelatedI cannot install OEM versions of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit from a Windows 7 x64 DVD with COA and valid license keys. I purchased a new OEM Windows 7 x64 DVD from a well known retailer for a new computer build with all new components. When I tried to install with the Windows DVD to a new empty intel 240 gb SSD the install failed and I was presented the following error.
"Windows encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer."
I/O Error 0xc00000e9