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Can I use a Windows 7 Home Premium disk to make my cracked W7 Ultimate OS legal?

Answered Can I use a Windows 7 Home Premium disk to make my cracked W7 Ultimate OS legal?

  • Saturday, 15 January, 2011 6:42 PM
     
     
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    I'm changing my pirate Windows 7 Ultimate to legal Windows 7 Home Premium. 

    These damn popups won't go away and at least the Home version is cheaper than before. Does downgrading a pirated 7 Ultimate to 7 Home Premium need a serial number change, a reinstallation from a disk (does a upgrade disk work?), or will it need a total reinstall? 
     

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  • Saturday, 15 January, 2011 7:35 PM
     
     
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    Hello JimmyDs,

    Backup your data and do a clean (repartition and reformat) installation.

    And hope your cracked W7 disc did not have one of those malwares that writes itself into the BIOS...they're harder to eradicate than cockroaches.

     
  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2011 9:05 PM
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    You will need to purchase a genuine "Full Version" edition of Windows 7 and perform a "clean install" which requires a reformat of the hard drive.  A "downgrade" from Windows 7 Ultimate to Home Premium is not possible.
    Carey Frisch