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Need Help! I own retail Windows 7, but want to clean install it on a new hd.
rostheferret:
Wow. See, all I did was crack it. Then again, I never actually bought it in the first place...
*whistles*
Lonewolf5460:
Lol me neither that is just for my customers.
*whistles*
Slasha:
I installed a W7 version I got with my old laptop on my desktop PC. I didn't deactivate the old version or something like that, but I had to activate the new installation by phone. Normal activation with just the key wasn't possible, don't ask me why.
rkruger:
--- Quote from: HiddenJumper on May 12, 2011, 05:13:51 AM ---My understanding of windows is that even if he installs it on the new HDD, he will still need to deactivate it on the old one because of the current activation system in W7. I remember I tried it once and it wouldn't let me activate my copy on the other system because of that fact.
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I recently re-installed an OEM edition of W7, and no deactivation was required.
Come to think of it, I have never heard/read that explicit deactivation was ever required, do you have a source to confirm this claim?
--- Quote from: Slasha on May 12, 2011, 07:34:35 AM ---Normal activation with just the key wasn't possible, don't ask me why.
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I think I read somewhere that only 3 activations are possible over the Internet, after that you have to resort to the phone.
HiddenJumper:
--- Quote from: HiddenJumper on May 12, 2011, 05:13:51 AM ---My understanding of windows is that even if he installs it on the new HDD, he will still need to deactivate it on the old one because of the current activation system in W7. I remember I tried it once and it wouldn't let me activate my copy on the other system because of that fact.
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Never meant to say it was required, just for my circumstance it wanted me to. I typically crack my W7 except for the one on my main system only because I like to have one legit copy. However when I went to run W7 in bootcamp on my Macbook Air (yes let the jokes out now, Air is a p.o.s, 1st gen model), it ran fine but then I went to install it on my g/fs other laptop and wanted a deactivation.
I was told by my friend's dad, who works for Dell now, that Win7 was installable on 2 machines, one laptop and one desktop (just not two laptops or two desktops) and that is true, just have to do the phone activation with the second computer. When I went to run it on the third machine it wanted the deactivation (obviously), so I just cracked the one on the Mac to get rid of the brodcast code there and installed it on the third one.
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