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a little complicated...
half a year back or so i built my own system, and it turned out dope. my dad was paying for most of it and wanted to keep as low on budget as possible and had me find the cheapest copy of vista to buy. i found a $90 download of vista ultimate that i burned to a dvd and installed and everything worked perfectly. up until a couple weeks ago i have been getting a TON of error messages telling me my copy of windows isn't genuine and i had a bad CD key. i looked back at the version i bought and realized it was a sketchy place i got it from and shouldn't have gotten it, but the sight was shut down, probably busted, and couldn't do anything about it. my dad works for the military and he got me a backup disc version they used for the military ppl to install instead. he gave me 2 dvds,one was straight windows vista for HP or Compaq pcs with 32 and 64 bit versions on it and the other was a vista business 32bit version for Dell. the tech ppl at my dad's work told me one or the other should work. the HP version didn't work, and the Dell one i got to the install screen so i'm guessing it would work. what i want to do however is get windows 7 home premium 64bit version, hopefully the upgrade way. i was thinking it could maybe work if i installed the vista buisiness version with a legit CD key and then upgrade to windows 7 premium. i wanted to know if this would work, what all the complications would be and possibly what steps i should take to get to windows 7 home premium from where i am now. i already backed up all my stuff on an external hard drive so i could do a clean install if i needed to.
thanks