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Re-installation & activation key swap-out
When I first whacked on W7 i was using a retail disk, and never did get the AHCI quite right, plus there were a couple of generic drivers which were loaded by W7 setup that proved to be incorrect.
Very soon I plan to reinstall. However I've come into possession of a family upgrade pack with one spare licence on it, and plan to use that.
What I don't want to do is install twice (as with upgrades is necessary if performing custom installation where the primary disk is formatted, otherwise activation fails).
My thinking was to install using the retail disk. Activate with the retail keycode, post installation, but then change the key to the spare family pack licence I have, and to liberate my retail disks activation code once more.
Anyone else done this?
PS; The W7 machine isn't my main computer - yet...