Can I use win 7 recovery disk on a different computer?
April 162010
I have windows 7 on my laptop and can make a recovery disk. I want to install windows 7 on my desktop which is currently an xp. I ran windows 7 upgrade advisor and it said my desktop is compatible for windows 7. Will using the windows 7 recovery disks to reformat and install windows 7 on it cause any problems with my desktop? Some people have been telling me the bios might get messed up, but idk. What do you think?
A recovery disk isn’t an install disk, it won’t do anything on a computer that doesn’t have Windows 7 already installed. (And if you don’t have an *unused* activation key to use on that computer, the installation would stop running in 30 days even if you could do the installation.)
April 16th, 2010 at 6:13 am
The recovery disks that you can make are ONLY for that computer NO other computer. You would have to buy a hole new license and disk to install Windows 7 on your desktop.
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April 16th, 2010 at 6:44 am
The short answer is yes. But unless you have a different product key then the Windows 7 will become useless in 30 days.
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April 16th, 2010 at 6:58 am
A recovery disk isn’t an install disk, it won’t do anything on a computer that doesn’t have Windows 7 already installed. (And if you don’t have an *unused* activation key to use on that computer, the installation would stop running in 30 days even if you could do the installation.)
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