As title says. OEM means you can only use once right? well im going to reinstall windows onto another drive which is on the same pc. Just different drive. Am i still able to use the same product key? if not is there any way to deactivate it?
about to reinstall windows but i have OEM upgrade disc.
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well im using the same motherboard....so it should be safe?
cheers! lets just hope it works.
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Should be fine. Done a lot of these over the years and I've only had to call MS twice.
Fingers crossed for you
Fingers crossed for you
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You shouldn't' have an issue, and there is no such thing as an OEM Upgrade.
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i see a lot of forums/sites say you gotta phone up microsoft and give a reason? i have no phonemy mobile broke
I've never had any luck using the web activation, since W7 was released i've installed it twice using the same machine and not once has it worked, just use the phone activation and when it asks you if you've installed it on any other machines, if it does, just say no (well you havent!)
Broken phone? ask a friend/do it at work? Just write down the long codes on a piece of paper.
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Dell were sending out upgrade disc's, when Win 7 came out.
I bought a Acer Revo 3610 nettop last week and that came with windows 7 pre-installed but no actual physical disk and i wanted to do a re-install to get rid of all the bloat etc.
Anyway I downloaded a OEM version of Windows 7 and installed it, entered the key and it didn't work so i rang the free Microsoft product activation number which was automated, followed instructions and now all works. Never once did i speak to a real person.
Anyway I downloaded a OEM version of Windows 7 and installed it, entered the key and it didn't work so i rang the free Microsoft product activation number which was automated, followed instructions and now all works. Never once did i speak to a real person.