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    Windows 7 Windows licence??

    Hello, I have restored an older laptop of mine, it originally came with Windows Vista (which I liked) I now have installed a new HDD and am contemplating my next best plan. I do have a Windows licence for Windows Vista on this machine, unfortuately I know of no way of getting Vista. I could...
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    Windows 10 Activate windows 10 after HDD change

    Hi guys So, I have a laptop that came with windows 8, I upgraded to windows 10 for free when it came and everything went okay. Now I want to upgrade my laptop HDD to a SSD, but I was wondering how will this affect my windows license key. I read some articles but the more I read more confusing...
  3. Transferring OS from old HDD to new HDD

    I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...
  4. Windows 7 Clean Install Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit without Disc

    I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit and I ran into some problems while upgrading the HDD. At this point I think it would be best to just start over and clean install. I feel like my OS was starting to get gunked up anyway. So, I made a list of all my software and know where to get it all again...
  5. Windows 7 Do I need to reinstall OS after upgrading my HDD?

    I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...
  6. Windows 7 Replace Disk 1 with Disk 0 in Computer Management

    Its a bit complicated to state my situation, anyways, I have 2 HDD, and the PC won't boot if I removed the old HDD even though I've formatted the old HDD and win7 is on the new HDD. I have 2 physical HDD in PC (1) 80GB old hdd and noisy. (not SATA) (2) 500GB SATA hdd and sexy. My...
  7. Windows 7 Got a Spare HDD and...

    Well I just upgraded my PS3's stock 60gb HDD to plump 250gb one, the installation was simple just plug&play. So now I got a spare 60gig HDD just lying around so I'm thinking of putting it into my laptop and use it as a backup disk since my current backup HDD is a measly 10gb. So what I'm...
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    Windows 7 Semi Succesful Dual Boot with OSX 10.4 WITHOUT BOOTCAMP

    So, my little brother got tired of his inferior machine and gave it to me. After upgrading the HDD to a 320GB 5400 RPM WD Scorpio Blue, i also gave it a total of 2GB DDR RAM, and decided i liked Windows 7 so much, i wanted to dual boot, so that i may keep OSX (for clients) and still work this is...