windows licencing questions

wongataa

NiftyDigits wrote: »

No one mentioned using the Restore Partition.

Inigo_Montoya wrote: »

dont have any installation discs for the old system - only have a recovery partition that I can use to recreate a clean copy of the windows install

I think someone did.

OP this is what you need to do.
Download the Windows 7 installation disc ISO file.
You can burn this to a DVD and use it to install windows if the new laptop has an optical drive. You can also create a installation USB stick from it.

Make sure when you create the installation media you delete the ei.cfg file.

Use this installation media t install Windows on the new laptop. Because you have deleted the ei.cfg file you will be asked what version of Windows you want to install. Choose the version on the label on the new laptop. Use the code on the sticker when asked to and it should all activate fine.

When installed keep running Windows update until you have applied all the updates. It will take a while.

Keep the installation media in case you ever want to install Windows 7 from scratch again.

System

wongataa wrote: »

When installed keep running Windows update until you have applied all the updates. It will take a while.

Having just rebuilt a machine using a Win7 SP1 disc. The first chunk of updates is around 150 updates followed, after a few random ones, with another of 40+ updates. It took me all day yesterday to install and bring up to date.

NiftyDigits

wongataa wrote: »

I think someone did.

OP this is what you need to do.
Download the Windows 7 installation disc ISO file.
You can burn this to a DVD and use it to install windows if the new laptop has an optical drive. You can also create a installation USB stick from it.

Make sure when you create the installation media you delete the ei.cfg file.

Use this installation media t install Windows on the new laptop. Because you have deleted the ei.cfg file you will be asked what version of Windows you want to install. Choose the version on the label on the new laptop. Use the code on the sticker when asked to and it should all activate fine.

When installed keep running Windows update until you have applied all the updates. It will take a while.

Keep the installation media in case you ever want to install Windows 7 from scratch again.

The whole point of it was that he wanted to transfer his whole HDD intact.
If it was about just installing Windows 7 to the new laptop, there would be no need for this thread at all.

The Recovery Partition was only mentioned as they were asked if they had installation discs.

It is possible to swap the drives, though it might take some fiddling to get it to boot successfully and cleanly.
Then Telephone Activation using the old COA(as it will still be Home Premium). Once complete, an in-place upgrade(Anytime Upgrade) can be done to Professional(to match the new COA).


Personally, I would just run a clean install of Professional from the beginning.