My friend bought windows 7 upgrade from vista.
She installed it on her computer. I don't know if she was connected to the internet at any point while win 7 was installed.
Shortly after he computer blew up and she bought a new one with win 7 already on it.
I now have her copy of win 7 upgrade and will it work on my pc?
I have vista.
thank you
yeah at most it will take a call to MS to explain what happened and they will activate if you can't
Hello bbcaptman, and welcome to Seven Forums.
It depends if it is a OEM or retail upgrade copy of Windows 7.
If it's a retail copy, then yes you can install and activate it on your computer.
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
If it's a OEM copy and had been activated on her computer, then the key number is permanently tied to that computer. You can try to do a phone activation, but you might not be able to activate it on your computer with the same key number. It would be worth a try to see though.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
thank you!
its retail so I will try it when i get the chance
will do, but won;'t have a chance to try till next week some how hopefully
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