windows 7, how to swap from hard drive to ssd

i brrought it off amazon,just get sent the serial key and downloaded it from microsoft, so i have no physical disc ,yes just wanted to see how much faster it is using a ssd.


ive lost my serial key is there a way i can recover it? i did find a program that said iit could recover it, im not sure if it worked because ive checked the serial with microsoft and they say that serial is from a pre built system


from microsoft win 7 download centre...

Unsupported Product
The product key you entered appears to be for software that was pre-installed on a device. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options.

i think amazon has sold me a stolen key maby/

its amazing how technology progres, i used to work for ibm testing mainfraim hard drives they were thee sizze of a bath tub ;)
 
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Amazon hasn't sold you a stolen key, they have sold you an OEM key which can only be installed on one device.

Microsoft do not support OEM licenses, that's part of the terms. The download site will only download for retail keys which Microsoft do support.

So you will need to obtain the media/iso for an OEM installation of Windows 7 and then it will install on that same machine fine with your key that you have pulled from your install.

Its not an illegal key, its a system builder OEM key that Microsoft don't directly support.
 
i brrought it off amazon,just get sent the serial key and downloaded it from microsoft, so i have no physical disc ,yes just wanted to see how much faster it is using a ssd.


ive lost my serial key is there a way i can recover it? i did find a program that said iit could recover it, im not sure if it worked because ive checked the serial with microsoft and they say that serial is from a pre built system


from microsoft win 7 download centre...

Unsupported Product
The product key you entered appears to be for software that was pre-installed on a device. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options.

i think amazon has sold me a stolen key maby/

its amazing how technology progres, i used to work for ibm testing mainfraim hard drives they were thee sizze of a bath tub ;)

Your post sound much like troll but you really are naïve lost both your email and delivery. :eek:

Just found the product you described on amazon but seemed you cant be bothered to read seller answered all questions and customers positive feedbacks, the seller sold you a genuine OEM key delivered by recorded delivery and send you email with a link to download Windows 7 OEM iso so it will only work with OEM key but download it from Microsoft wont worked because it only worked with retail keys not OEM keys.

I remembered years ago there was a tool Windows 7 ISO Image Edition Switcher that converted retail Windows 7 iso downloaded from Microsoft site to OEM like TechNet and MSDN that will accept OEM key and activated.

http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutils/

If your Windows 7 is already activated, there are 3 tools Activation Backup and Restore (ABR), Advanced Tokens Manager and Windows 7 OEM License Installer that can backup your Windows 7 activation and license then restore on new SSD without need to call Microsoft to reactivated again.

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/backup-and-restore-vista-oem-activation-license/
 
Thank you very much for your help, I've just found an old dell win 7 reinstallation Disc that came with a dell laptop, would that work maby? I did use a program to get the serial from my pc but I'm not confident its the correct serial

Thanks
 
Thanks very much for the help, I think this copy of windows may have wone, I can't download it I did try but I got this message from Ms when I entered the serial


Unsupported Product
The product key you entered appears to be for software that was pre-installed on a device. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options.
 
I've never seen the Microsoft recovery site work. You need to get the ISOs from another source.

Digital River was the best place to download legal ISOs, but they seemed to have been removed now. You can still find the ISOs on other unofficial sites if you search around the net but do be careful.
 
Yeah when I said online I didn't mean from Microsoft. Like Orcvader said, they used to be officially available online but now plenty of places still have them.
 
After hours of unsuccessful searchs for Windows 7 OEM isos.

Finally I found a german site Microsoft DigitalRiver Mirror hosting all DigitalRiver and TechNet ISOs with list of MD5 and SHA1 checksums included. :)

http://superuser.com/questions/7876...indows-7-legally-from-microsoft/922599#922599

http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

If you never used torrent before then here is guide included in superuser link how to download torrent client, I recommend utorrent.

http://www.utorrent.com/

When download completed and drag the iso into checksum tool to see if checksum matched then it is genuine and if it not matched then the ISO was been tampered or modified, check other OCUK thread below to find best checksum tools.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18680578
 
I recently upgraded our ageing Sony VAIO to an SSD using one of the legal Win 7 HP ISO's that I downloaded a while ago. The biggest problem I had was realising the Intel RST drivers were essential for not only the SSD to function normally, but for Windows services such as Indexing / Update / Security to work...

Just cloning the drive (which I did initially) didn't go well due to storage driver issues.
 
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thanks athlon i will try to download it see if that works

im a bit confused, im going to try to download it as a torent. not sure which one i should download the x64 or the x86 version? whats the difference?

very greatfull for the help............
 
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thanks athlon i will try to download it see if that works

im a bit confused, im going to try to download it as a torent. not sure which one i should download the x64 or the x86 version? whats the difference?

very greatfull for the help............

X64 is a 64 bit OS that allows you to use more than 4GB of ram, x86 is a 32 bit OS and doesn't allow you to use anything over 4GB, you can have more than 4GB installed but windows will only be able to use 4GB
 
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