installing home premium from a professional disc?


  1. Hondajt
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    installing home premium from a professional disc?


    I bought a new laptop, and it came with a 5400rpm HDD with Home Premium x64. I have an SSD I would like to install, and need to install windows 7. I have a Windows 7 professional x64 disc, but I'm using it on my brothers laptop.

    Can I use that disc to install windows 7, and just use the key found on the label on the bottom of this laptop? Or does the cd have to be a home premium cd?

    I have an ultimate CD also, but it's being used on my main computer.
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  3. derekimo
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    Hondajt said:
    I bought a new laptop, and it came with a 5400rpm HDD with Home Premium x64. I have an SSD I would like to install, and need to install windows 7. I have a Windows 7 professional x64 disc, but I'm using it on my brothers laptop.

    Can I use that disc to install windows 7, and just use the key found on the label on the bottom of this laptop? Or does the cd have to be a home premium cd?

    I have an ultimate CD also, but it's being used on my main computer.
    You could make a universal disc and just install the home premium from that,

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  4. Hondajt
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    ^^Thanks!
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  6. Bare Foot Kid
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    Hello.



    Windows 7 activation keys are version specific, a H. Premium key will not activate a Professional version, a H. Premium key will only activate a H.P. install.
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