Yet another Windows 8 Upgrade question

benjo

benjo

benjo

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Hi guys,

I've already got Windows 8 Pro on my desktop, but it's not.. legit. Anyway, I just bought an upgrade key through the Upgrade Assistant. Is it possible to use my upgrade key on the full retail iso I've already downloaded elsewhere?

Or should I just wait ~3 hours for the Upgrade Assistant to finish downloading my new iso?

Thanks
 
Well everything seems to have worked. Finished the download through the Upgrade Advisor and made a bootable usb.

Unplugged every HDD except for my illegitimate win7 install and booted to usb. Chose my drive, formatted and it and installed it.

Entered my product key during the installation and Win8 was activated after I first booted. Oh well :)
 
Yep, did a clean install with my upgrade iso. Just booted to the USB, formatted my pirate windows 7 partition and installed from fresh. Put my windows 8 serial in and it was activated once I connected to the net :)

edit: Just to clarify.. In my original post I stated I was on Windows 8 which wasn't legit. I liked it though so I decided to buy it. I rolled back to illegitimate copy of Windows 7, then bought an official Win 8 upgrade.
 
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