Soldato
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Right guys,
So I have Windows 7 Home premium upgrade, but my disc is nackered and it wont install, so I used a friends home premium disc to install and I just found a serial online to let it install which is did but not obviously it's not doing any Windows updates etc as it's not genuine.
Problem is, I can't use my genuine upgrade key because the original windows 7 install is not activated. Can I install say, the windows 8 evaluation and then activate it this way? Or any other way I can get around it?
It's driving me mad, I have a paid for copy of W7 but I can't get it activated cause it's an upgrade key. I haven't got a usb drive lying around to back up the files on to do an install off that either. (I had XP previously, but no longer do.)
Any help is much appreciated.
So I have Windows 7 Home premium upgrade, but my disc is nackered and it wont install, so I used a friends home premium disc to install and I just found a serial online to let it install which is did but not obviously it's not doing any Windows updates etc as it's not genuine.
Problem is, I can't use my genuine upgrade key because the original windows 7 install is not activated. Can I install say, the windows 8 evaluation and then activate it this way? Or any other way I can get around it?
It's driving me mad, I have a paid for copy of W7 but I can't get it activated cause it's an upgrade key. I haven't got a usb drive lying around to back up the files on to do an install off that either. (I had XP previously, but no longer do.)
Any help is much appreciated.
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