• Upgrading a Win 7 Home to Pro
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I recently built a new computer. Now, I made the wrong assumption of thinking that while it was not ok to sell an OEM Windows 7 license, it was ok to transfer it from one computer to another. So on my new computer I downloaded the install ISO for Win 7 Home Premium and installed it on my new computer using the old key on my old computer. Obviously it crapped out on me a few days later and told me I had a non-genuine copy of Windows before asking me to buy a new key. I didn't want to 'upgrade' to Windows 8 so I looked on eBay and after trawling though all the OEM copies of Win 7 for sale on there I managed to find a retail copy of Windows 7 Professional in its sealed packaging. Today it arrived and I went ahead and entered the license code into Windows only for it to tell me that I had to reinstall Windows 7 if I wanted to use a Professional key. Does anyone know of a way to install Windows 7 without a clean install? I went back into the Windows boot installer I downloaded from the Microsoft when I built my computer website only to remember it was a Home Premium only installer rather than a general Windows 7 installer and it didn't seem to have an upgrade install option. I'm currently downloading the Professional installer ISO (3 hours to go, yay...) but I'm wondering what I'll do if there also isn't an upgrade install option there. Is there possibly a Win 7 Home to Professional upgrade ISO out there? I can't find it.
You just have to search "Windows anytime upgrade" in the start menu and input the key there. Then activate the copy of Windows as normal with that key as well.
Didn't work. Said my key wasn't an Anytime Upgrade Key. [editline]3rd February 2015[/editline] I really don't want to have to do a clean install.
Try using this key in the anytime upgrade : FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4 (key source [url]https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx[/url]) And then use the one you got to activate windows afterwards.
[QUOTE=bassie12;47065772]Try using this key in the anytime upgrade : FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4 (key source [url]https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx[/url]) And then use the one you got to activate windows afterwards.[/QUOTE] [quote]Applies To: [I]Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2[/I] Computers that are running [I]volume licensing [/I]editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 are, by default, KMS clients with no additional configuration needed.[/quote] [editline]3rd February 2015[/editline] I doubt it will work but I'll try anyway. [editline]3rd February 2015[/editline] Well, fuck me, it actually worked.
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