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windows 7 upgrade craziness...questions about pricing/upgrade keys??
hulkster:
so the "upgrade discount" has been announced and you can get windows 7 home premium for $49 if you get the upgrade disc. from what ive read you can do a CLEAN INSTALL using the upgrade disc and activate win 7 using an xp/vista license key. if you bought your pc through dell or whatever this is straight forward. if you bought the full retail version of xp or vista, its also a no brainer....but here's my question:
i have 3 old IBM ThinkCentre pc's sitting in my garage with xp license stickers on the outside of the boxes. they are obviously oem copies that were pre-installed on the box itself. i dont want to install win7 on those and have no plans on using those pc's. HOWEVER what i want to know is, can i do a clean install of win7 on a custom built pc (new harddrives and such with no OS on them) and when it asks for a valid license key just put in the xp licenses from those OEM pc's?
how does the validation work? does it validate online before you do a clean install and like...record what kind of hardware you have :dunno i dont know...i want to buy the $50 copies of win7 but theres no point if my oem xp keys wont work.
Cakemeister:
I dunno, but I just bought two upgrade disks. I probably ought to buy at least one more. At release I will buy one full copy. That way I can use the full install disk and put any key I own on it.
daywane:
check PC specks for windows 7
I doubt your older PCs can handle windows 7
do you have 2 gig of memory in each?
hulkster:
--- Quote from: daywane on June 26, 2009, 01:18:49 pm ---check PC specks for windows 7
I doubt your older PCs can handle windows 7
do you have 2 gig of memory in each?
--- End quote ---
i dont think you understand.....im not going to install win7 on the old pc, i just want to use the xp key on the sticker from the old machine. so i'll build a new pc with upgraded specs, then install win7 with the xp key from the old ibm out in the garage.
CCM:
some good info here:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1419245
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