Chronixal Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Figured this would be as good a place to ask as anywhere else... Ok, hopefully this is straightforward and will make some sense. I've recently purchased an in the possession of an SSD to put inside my laptop. I understand SSD work slightly better under a clean install but being a laptop it's OEM Windows and no disc came with it so no chance of that. So, I've used Windows 7 and an external HDD to create a full system image of the current internal HDD to copy onto the SSD. However, when I came to create the recovery disc to boot so to copy the image over, the crappy DVD-Rs Ive bought can't be burnt for whatever reason. No problem, they go back to the store. However, after rooting around to find any other blank discs, I found an old recovery disc for my old laptop but that was with a 32bit version on WIn7 as opposed to the 64bit version I have now. My question is, assuming all I need to do is use the disc to load up the recovery options to copy the image from the external to the SSD, can I use this disc or wait until I can create a new recovery disc with my current version of Windows? Ta in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 You don't need a disc to install Windows. Do you have a serial key? It might be on the bottom of the laptop. You could just pirate Windows 7 and then buy Windows 8 for $15 if you want a legit key. That's the non-technical way to go at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronixal Posted November 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 I was under the impression that trying to use an OEM key on a full version of Windows usually threw up a load of issues or just wouldn't work? Interesting idea though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 Wouldn't hurt to try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 There is a way to trick the system by going into the registry to turn off the "PLEASE GIVE US YOUR CD KEY" if it doesn't want your OEM CD KEY. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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