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.