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Hi all,
Great thread and I've learned a lot.
So, I have a 64 bit Home premium retail CD and its newly installed on my PC. I've been BSODING and various other errors have started up, so I want to make sure that its a software error and not hardware.
I have SP1 installed although the Windows CD does NOT have SP1 on it...I tried to repair install with the CD using the Vista SP2 compatibility work around, but I get an installation error 0x80070241.
I recon my CD may be borked or my optical drive is futzed, (possible as some games that did work now have CAB corruptions off the disk...but I digress).
No hassle, I'm downloading the X17-58997 ISO , (Win 7 Home Premium SP1) off Digital river right now.
My question is this: IF this works and I do the repair install with the ISO, when it comes to validating my copy of Windows...will my existing product key work?
I ask because this ISO has SP1 included and my origional, (and probably damaged), disk did not.
I don't really want to end up with a repaired windows that I can't authenticate with my existing key.
Thanks