I installed a new hard drive today and performed a clean install on the new drive. I followed the tip under Tutorial that mentioned not to activate during the installation. I reinstalled the OS from the upgrade version of Win 7 Professional.
Now the OS is installed, I attempted to activate my copy and received the message that it is an invalid key, can only be used for upgrading not for clean installation.
I do have a valid key, entered the key from the Microsoft email received when I purchased the product.
Do you have any suggestions how I can correct this?
Thanks Greg.
Now the OS is installed, I attempted to activate my copy and received the message that it is an invalid key, can only be used for upgrading not for clean installation.
I do have a valid key, entered the key from the Microsoft email received when I purchased the product.
Do you have any suggestions how I can correct this?
Thanks Greg.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Alienware Aurora
- OS
- Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
- CPU
- Core i7 Extreme 975 @ 3.33GHz overclocked to 3.6 GHz
- Motherboard
- Alienware 0H869M
- Memory
- 12 GB DDR3 1333MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 1.8 GB RAM
- Sound Card
- Creative SB X-Fi Titanium
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell 2407WFP
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1200
- Hard Drives
- OCZ Vertex 2 100GB SSD - Primary Drive, Western Digital 300GB SATA-II 3GB/X, 10,000 RPM, 16MB Cache - Secondary Drive
- PSU
- 875 Watt
- Case
- Cosmic Black
- Cooling
- Alienware High-Performance Liquid Cooling
- Keyboard
- Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech
- Internet Speed
- 60/3MB Service
- Other Info
- Logitech Z-5500 THX-Certified 505-Watt 5.1 Digital Surround Sound Speaker System
