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Alkaline2

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Ok so I bought the OEM Windows 7 64 bit Student's Addition cd. Well I was told by the college bookstore cashier that I didn't need to already have a previous version of Windows on my computer to install Windows 7, I just need the product key handy for the old version. Well I was reading around as to why I keep getting the Windows 7 activation error: invalid product key; and Windows 7 activation error: invalid product key , is saying that I have to have the previous version of Windows already installed on the computer. Can anyone confirm this?
 

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if you bought a legitimate OEM version of Windows 7, it should have come with it's own key..

- use that..
 

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Alkaline2 said:
Ok so I bought the OEM Windows 7 64 bit Student's Addition cd. Well I was told by the college bookstore cashier that I didn't need to already have a previous version of Windows on my computer to install Windows 7, I just need the product key handy for the old version. Well I was reading around as to why I keep getting the Windows 7 activation error: invalid product key; and Windows 7 activation error: invalid product key , is saying that I have to have the previous version of Windows already installed on the computer. Can anyone confirm this?
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I believe that to be true, but would not have believed a bookstore cashier either. Is there any remedy at the bookstore? have you called MS to see if they would change the key for a small fee?


Ken
 

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Ok thanks ;)

All I had to do was just not enter a product key and click "next". Then it finished installing Windows 7.
 

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Alkaline2 said:
Well I was told by the college bookstore cashier that I didn't need to already have a previous version of Windows on my computer to install Windows 7, I just need the product key handy for the old version.
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Your Windows Vista Product Key will not activate an upgrade Windows 7 DVD, or any other version of Windows 7.
 

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Alkaline2 said:
Ok thanks ;)

All I had to do was just not enter a product key and click "next". Then it finished installing Windows 7.
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How do you plan on activating it?
 

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Yeah I wasn't able to activate it. So I tried installing windows XP 32-bit and then inserting the Windows 7 64-bit disk to upgrade and got a incompatible message so I couldn't upgrade from XP to 7... So I don't really know what to do now.
 

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Just do the custom install now that xp is on the drive 7 will see it and let you use your upgrade key. good luck to you. and welcome to SevenForums
 

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djjaeger82 said:
Hi everyone,
This is not necessarily the case. Clean install from upgrade disc only seems to work with a previous version of windows on the drive already (not necessarily activated). I did a lot of testing on this tonight when I tried to upgrade my primary workstation after resetting my RAID array (completely blank, no partitions, no data etc).

Please take a look here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...l-upgrade-windows-7-version-7.html#post323460
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So can anyone confirm this? If I were to install my Windows 7 on a clean hard drive with no pre-existing windows OS and skip the product key code to finish the install AND THEN reinstall the same Windows 7 and enter in the product key this time it will accept it and finish the install without getting the "wrong product key" message?
 

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myzr7 said:
Just do the custom install now that xp is on the drive 7 will see it and let you use your upgrade key. good luck to you. and welcome to SevenForums
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Try that.
 

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Yeah once I had Windows XP installed the Custom Install worked and I was able to activate my Windows 7 once it was done installing. Thanks to everyone for the advice and help :)
 

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Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366
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Patriot Extreme Performance Viper Series 12GB 240pinDDR31333
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Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 1GB 256-bit x 2
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ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor
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Thanks for posting the problem was solved. Enjoy! :D
 

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