Soldato
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- 30 Sep 2006
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Hi all,
so i've got a laptop with a dead drive, which im replacing with a SSD.
I have windows disks; the laptop has a COA on the bottom and with a magnifying glass i can make out the product key, but the bit above telling me which version of windows it is has been worn off
I did a google image search for the COA of various versions to see if they are different. It looks to be win7 home, so i loaded up a disk and input the key (double checked it) but it fails saying its invalid.
Maybe i didn't get the version right after all.
So....any ideas how i can ID the version purely from the product key?
Thanks for an help offered.
so i've got a laptop with a dead drive, which im replacing with a SSD.
I have windows disks; the laptop has a COA on the bottom and with a magnifying glass i can make out the product key, but the bit above telling me which version of windows it is has been worn off

I did a google image search for the COA of various versions to see if they are different. It looks to be win7 home, so i loaded up a disk and input the key (double checked it) but it fails saying its invalid.
Maybe i didn't get the version right after all.
So....any ideas how i can ID the version purely from the product key?
Thanks for an help offered.