Hey All,
My particular ROG laptop came with a single 500GB harddrive, so I always had plans to purchase an SSD seperately put a fresh install on it to get away from the bloatware and then reinstall and reformat the original 500GB drive. So I watched a VERY helpfull video on youtube on how to properly get to your harddrives. I removed the original drive and set it to the side. Intact and backed up previously using the Asus archive software to 6 DVD's.....just in case. I installed the SSD only, got into BIOS (which was a journey in itself. No where I could see in Asus documentation did they tell you which key to press to enter the BIOS. It's F2 by the way...) made sure AHCI was on instead of IDE and then went onward. Asus does not provide a recovery disk anymore, just a driver disk. So I carefully wrote down the Microsoft Product ID for Win 7 Home Premium. On another computer build, I had purchased previously a Win 7 64-bit Ultimate license/install disk full version. In the past, I've installed "lesser" versions of Windows using a disk like this, but of course entering in the proper product ID number. And Windows has always installed the correct version. This time was different....During the install when I was entering in the product ID I got an error saying that the Windows SKU was wrong. It let me go ahead and install the OS. After getting in the installed system, I tried to enter in the correct Product ID key again. It then gave me an error that the ID I had entered was for a different version of Windows. It was at that point I noticed that the install disk had gone ahead and installed full blown Ultimate on my drive. Which of course is wrong. So now my question, and I think I know part of the answer. Since the install disk defaulted to Ultimate, and I have a Home Premium ID, I'm going to have to re-format and re-install the drive. However, before I go down that road I'm worried I'm just going to get that error again and be right back in the same shape. I called Microsoft activation to get some clarification. They verified that the Product ID on my laptop is valid and is OEM with Asus. But then the operator told me that to install Home Premium I HAD to have a Home Premium install disk......Now I've been building computers since 1988. I've had every flavor of Windows except ME and NT that I've used to build new systems. My experience tells me that what she told me is not correct as I've done the exact same thing with a Vista 64-bit install. But is Win 7 different?
I appreciate any helpful comments, and thanks for reading this long post!
Cykoth
My particular ROG laptop came with a single 500GB harddrive, so I always had plans to purchase an SSD seperately put a fresh install on it to get away from the bloatware and then reinstall and reformat the original 500GB drive. So I watched a VERY helpfull video on youtube on how to properly get to your harddrives. I removed the original drive and set it to the side. Intact and backed up previously using the Asus archive software to 6 DVD's.....just in case. I installed the SSD only, got into BIOS (which was a journey in itself. No where I could see in Asus documentation did they tell you which key to press to enter the BIOS. It's F2 by the way...) made sure AHCI was on instead of IDE and then went onward. Asus does not provide a recovery disk anymore, just a driver disk. So I carefully wrote down the Microsoft Product ID for Win 7 Home Premium. On another computer build, I had purchased previously a Win 7 64-bit Ultimate license/install disk full version. In the past, I've installed "lesser" versions of Windows using a disk like this, but of course entering in the proper product ID number. And Windows has always installed the correct version. This time was different....During the install when I was entering in the product ID I got an error saying that the Windows SKU was wrong. It let me go ahead and install the OS. After getting in the installed system, I tried to enter in the correct Product ID key again. It then gave me an error that the ID I had entered was for a different version of Windows. It was at that point I noticed that the install disk had gone ahead and installed full blown Ultimate on my drive. Which of course is wrong. So now my question, and I think I know part of the answer. Since the install disk defaulted to Ultimate, and I have a Home Premium ID, I'm going to have to re-format and re-install the drive. However, before I go down that road I'm worried I'm just going to get that error again and be right back in the same shape. I called Microsoft activation to get some clarification. They verified that the Product ID on my laptop is valid and is OEM with Asus. But then the operator told me that to install Home Premium I HAD to have a Home Premium install disk......Now I've been building computers since 1988. I've had every flavor of Windows except ME and NT that I've used to build new systems. My experience tells me that what she told me is not correct as I've done the exact same thing with a Vista 64-bit install. But is Win 7 different?
I appreciate any helpful comments, and thanks for reading this long post!
Cykoth
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