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Windows 7 Professional OEM Disk Capabilities
It's time to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my device. I have an OEM Windows 7 Professional Disk & Key and a retail Windows 7 Professional set of disks (32 bit & 64 bit) Disk and Key. I would like to install the retail version, but here's where the problems begin.
Although I have a complete retail version which I purchased it is a 2009 copy ergo no SP1. Well I thought I'd just go to Microsoft's download center and enter my key and download an ISO with SP1. Yeah right! I enter the key code for verification and it brings up a drop down list of language versions available. The only problem is that English not one of the options. I tried several more times and the same thing happened. This is an English version of the software that I paid full retail for back in the day.
I have several Windows 7 OEM Professional disks. Are these disks like the retail version which have multiple versions of the Windows installation on the disk? If so can I install the retail version off of one of these disks using the retail key?