Question regarding selling a windows 7 machine


  1. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #1

    Question regarding selling a windows 7 machine


    I plan on selling a build to fund a complete upgrade and currently use windows 10 thats upgraded from windows 7. If I sell the build with my second hard drive and with windows 7 on it, will that interfere, cause problems, or tap into/require any personal information I have relating to my ownership of windows 7? This probably seems like a question asked frequently but I couldnt find anything online relating to it, and I dont want to screw myself or the person who buys my computer over.
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  2. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #2

    If you sell yout Windows 7, then you don't own it any more. You have turned over all the assets.
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  3. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #3

    Hi,
    As long as the win-7 activation key is not the same as the one you upgraded to win-10 with and are installing win-7 again with to sell it
    I don't see an issue,
    As far as the drive goes
    Windows 7 Installation - Prepare PC to be Sold
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  4. Posts : 2,465
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #4

    Take into account that if you use the "upgraded" license of Win7 to Win10, 7 will no longer activate as long as 10 is in use. The free upgrade option is not a gifted extra license, it's a free of charge conversion of the existing license to the newer version.

    So for selling that machine with a working 7 install, you must stop using the upgraded 10, or buy a new license for it. Or sell the computer with an unlicensed 7 and leave the buyer the task of activating it O just sell an empty hard drive for the buyer to put whatever he wants on it.
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