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Is activation of W7 via phone possible for a not running version?
I have purchased a laptop that came originally with the OEM W7 Home Premium 64.
The previous owner had deleted the recovery partition and installed Ultimate on it which has a key.
I used an official Digital River ISO to create an install disc of Home Premium and validated the original OEM copy's key.
I need to use XP Mode and that is available only for Prof and Ultimate. I was wondering if I can replicate the ISO process and have the key of Ultimate validated by MS, so that I can switch to it.
When I validated the key by phone it used the running the version of W7 to which the key belonged. I am wondering if I can validate the other key even though I do not yet run that version. If not, is there another way to activate while that version is not running?
Thanks.