Posted on 06/10/2014 1:32:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow! Thanks for that! I had no idea these were available. Been slip'ing my own since hector was a pup... : )
Guilty as charged. It’s NeXTSTEP on steroids.
Well thanks. It’s not that easy. All I have is a notebook with W7 Starter. I have a spare hard drive I bought thinking I could find a W7 somewhere and then use it.
Buy a USB can for your spare drive (turns it into a USB external drive) so you can hook it to your current machine and back your stuff off of it (oughta have backup anyhoo). Then what I said is golden. Gotta get your stuff off to do what I say, though, because if you rub it off, you'll lose anything there is on the machine.
Might want to find a geek or guru to do it for you, as if it were me, I would want to preserve the restore partition on the internal drive for when you want to sell it - then you can restore it back to factory and keep the Win7 Home Prem for some other time...
All you have to do is boot off the oem disk, format the partition that windows is currently on, and tell win to install there... Might have to go get drivers to install to get it all working, but it is all pretty painless, take about an evening to do...
Too bad y'all ain't close by... About twice a week I have one buddy or another show up with a cold pack of PBRs under his arm wanting just such a thing.
I looked on Amazon and the complaints are when people bought the upgrade it error’d out saying it was no good. What they were selling was CD’s for people who load pc’s to sell so they had the license. MS doesn’t sell the original disks anymore. If I borrowed one (which I tried) it said it wasn’t good either since somehow the hard drive is registered(?) - so what if someone bought a new hard drive? They’d be out of luck. MS is nasty.
Any computer repair shop can get you Win7. Home Prem runs about 90-125 US,,, As I recall, you are an Ozzie gal, but no doubt there is the equivalent of a back alley shop or redneck engineer thereabouts who should know how, and can order you up an OEM disk which will give you the key too... Ozzies are no different than Americans when it comes to rugged individualism, so I find it hard to believe there is no one there who knows how... Tho it might be the vegemite effecting their sensibilities :)
I don't know about 'registered HDD' - I do this kind of thing all the time, and never ran into it, unless you are talking about the hard drive being encrypted, which can still be done... Just would have to zero the drive out completely.
Lastly, look into MS 'Anytime Upgrade' - I don't know if you must upgrade to Win8 or if you can upgrade to a better Win7, but that is all done electronically.
I really don't want to suggest it tho, because I generally hate 'upgrades'.
You might note upthread that my first advice was to kype the numbers from a wrecked Win7 box.
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