I recently bought a new hard drive. I installed windows 7 on the new drive everything was fine until I went to register windows. I previously bought an upgrade key with a student discount. I still have my old windows xp key but when I went to register it said the key couldn't be used with a clean install. Is there anyway I can input both keys to prove that I own a copy of xp or do I need to install two operating systems every time I need to reformat?
Windows 7 Reformatting with a windows 7 upgrade key
- Thread starter Mlawrence
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Your experience is one thing that makes an image backup such a good idea.
If you had already installed and activated your copy of Win 7, you might call Microsoft to see what they say. If they have a record of the activation, they may be able to help, but this is one of the great unknown situations that were expected with the Win 7 type of installation.
Maybe someone else will know what to do for sure.
If you had already installed and activated your copy of Win 7, you might call Microsoft to see what they say. If they have a record of the activation, they may be able to help, but this is one of the great unknown situations that were expected with the Win 7 type of installation.
Maybe someone else will know what to do for sure.
