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Activation Key Question
I have Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade.
I was wondering if it would be possible to use the Ultimate Upgrade 7 key to activate a Ultimate SP1 RTM to skip having to install the Home Premium I have, then update, then upgrade to Ultimate, then update again. In other words, to skip all the middlemen BS in-between on a Clean Install (and with a SP1 version, I only have the base disks right now - no SP1, and slipstream attempts have failed).
I know for a fact there is a way to do it with just the Ultimate Upgrade and key without even bothering with any other OS installed (blank drive, and using CMD) but I'd rather do it the legit way, with an SP1 Ultimate installer disk instead.
Not trying to do anything illegal here, I do own licenses to both I just want a way to preform a true Clean Install off of these and which will shave off considerable hours by doing it the way I said and just wanted to know if its possible before potentially wasting a burnable DVD trying.
Thank you for any and all assistance in this matter. I'm wanting to do this ASAP as system is now officially, extremely unstable (frequent BSOD's, mishandled exception errors evidently related to some kind of memory corruption going on - and other issues). So time is of the essence.