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Uninstalling Win7 to reinstall on another machine

  • 27-04-2010 12:50pm
    #1
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    I have a copy of Win7 installed on a partition of a laptop and i want to install it on a desktop soon. If i go to reinstall Win7 on another machine it says its installed elsewhere.

    How do i uninstall it so that i can reinstall it on another machine. I want to free up the licence i'd imagine basically.


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  • #2
    Verres
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Verres


    Guessing here (MS Support would be best placed to advise) - I don' think you can do it. The licence key for the copy you have gets married a particular PC on the MS side when you run WGA (or whatever the new version of this is).

    That said, if you called MS & explained, I am sure they'd remove the DB entry on their side and that would allow you to reinstall it.


  • #3
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭Cork Skate


    Verres wrote: »
    Guessing here (MS Support would be best placed to advise) - I don' think you can do it. The licence key for the copy you have gets married a particular PC on the MS side when you run WGA (or whatever the new version of this is).

    That said, if you called MS & explained, I am sure they'd remove the DB entry on their side and that would allow you to reinstall it.

    Hi Verres,

    I was having a look here but its not clear at all, and i dont want to try and do anything until i know it will work.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971762

    Is there a phone number in Ireland for Microsoft support, there doesn't seem to be any direct contact with them anywhere. Its very restrictive if it is the case that i cant uninstall on one machine and reinstall on another.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Thats weird. I have a legit version of ultimate on 4 machines and no messages. Each updates with no problems. What version are you using?


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