Installing Windows 7 on ssd


  1. wachu13
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    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    Installing Windows 7 on ssd


    I have Dell Inspiron 1520, which was shipped with Windows Vista 32Bit. Last year I bought Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and upgrade it to Windows 7 64bit.
    In next few days I will be switching to ssd drive.
    Because Windows 7 Upgrade is without SP1 I did download Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 from Digital River and put on usb stick.
    My plan is: clean install using this usb stick and then put Windows product key from my windows upgrade box. Is this will work? If yes then great will save me a lot of time if not what is the best and quicker way to do this?
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello Wachu, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Yes, you should have no problems installing it with the DR copy, and activating with your product key number. :)

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  4. wachu13
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    I did read all the informations from this link (by the way good stuff) , just wasn't sure about installing windows with sp1 and activating with product key pre-sp1.
    Thx for now. Now just have to wait for my new ssd drive to arrive to see how this will work.
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  6. Brink
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    You're welcome. Please let us know how it went. :)
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  7. wachu13
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    So I did clean install (without putting product key) on empty ssd. After install was complete I tried activate but get error that my key is for upgrade only or something like that. So I did second install and this time activation was successful.
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  8. Brink
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    Great news. Thank you for posting back with your results. :)
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