Solved Installing Windows 7 on ssd

[wachu13]

I have Dell Inspiron 1520, which was shipped with Windows Vista 32Bit. Last year I bought Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and upgrade it to Windows 7 64bit.
In next few days I will be switching to ssd drive.
Because Windows 7 Upgrade is without SP1 I did download Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 from Digital River and put on usb stick.
My plan is: clean install using this usb stick and then put Windows product key from my windows upgrade box. Is this will work? If yes then great will save me a lot of time if not what is the best and quicker way to do this?

 

[Brink]

Hello Wachu, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Yes, you should have no problems installing it with the DR copy, and activating with your product key number.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

 

[wachu13]

I did read all the informations from this link (by the way good stuff) , just wasn't sure about installing windows with sp1 and activating with product key pre-sp1.
Thx for now. Now just have to wait for my new ssd drive to arrive to see how this will work.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. Please let us know how it went.

 

[wachu13]

So I did clean install (without putting product key) on empty ssd. After install was complete I tried activate but get error that my key is for upgrade only or something like that. So I did second install and this time activation was successful.

 

[Brink]

Great news. Thank you for posting back with your results.