Thanks for the reply. I have several more questions:Just run the script and it will show the key for your installed OS.
EDIT: You cannot use the key from your installed Ultimate system on another system.
If you going to install Premium then no need to modify the ei.cfg but you will need your Premium key. Once installed and activated you could save them items for a future clean install.
I got out my Dell upgrade dvd they sent from Vista 64 to 7 64 which is also premium. I compared to that MS Technet dvd and they are identical except the ei.cfg and this disk is an OEM.
[EditionID]
HomePremium
[Channel]
OEM
[VL]
0
You can see mine is OEM and yours is Retail
1. My original question is how do I do a clean install once the DVD has been copied to HDD and the ei.cfg file has been deleted. Do I somehow burn a new DVD and if so, is it supposed to still be bootable? Or do I run setup.exe directly from the HDD? I normally boot from it.
2. Are you saying that it doesn't matter if the ei.cfg says OEM or Retail?
3. I ran your script on my laptop (not the one I plan to do the clean install) and got a PID number and Product Key. Do I use the Product Key? It matched my sticker.
Thanks
Pete
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