I have what I suspect is not a genuine Windows 7 pro copy on my computer and I have a Home Edition that I received from Dell as an upgrade. I want to install the home edition without losing everything I have worked hard to set up. Is there a way to "fix" my installation using the genuine windows 7 home disk without a new clean install?
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Run this tool and find out - Genuine Microsoft Software. Where did you get your computer from?
Indeed, so you'd be best of Clean Installing because you don't know what else was included in your disc.
Thank you. You are probably correct but I am not in the position to do a clean install right now and am asking if it is possible not to do it and preserve my data. A clean install may be in my future but I would rather not do it right now. I had a disaster the first time getting my sound drivers working again and am not looking forward to resolving this problem.
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for the sake of getting a properly running copy onto my computer for the next week or two until I can devote some time to a clean install, could you at least point me in the direction of the steps I would need to take to preserve my data?
I was thinking of just trying to just pop in the disk and fix via upgrade.
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