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Legality of reinstalling OEM with different OEM disc?

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leeland

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Hi all...

I have a netbook that I installed a larger drive in and added RAM and wanted to do a clean install of windows 7 x64 home premium.

Device came with windows 7 32 bit home premium.

Do I have any options available to get an OEM iso (x64) and install with my key?

Any info is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Lee
 
There is no difference between an oem media and the retail media, Except if it is a branded oem media from like dell or hp. those are designed to be used only with those machines.

as long as you are re-installing with the key that came with the machine you are fine.
 
Dahak said:
There is no difference between an oem media and the retail media, Except if it is a branded oem media from like dell or hp. those are designed to be used only with those machines.

as long as you are re-installing with the key that came with the machine you are fine.
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expanding on that thought...you mention OEM media...hp and dell...

Is it safe to assume that all manufactures (acer, Dell, HP, Asus, etc...) have their own disc's?

My situation is I have an asus netbook that came with windows 7 32 bit and I want to reinstall minus the bloatware with windows 7 x64 using my key...

I was hoping to use an OEM install disc for Home Premium if I can find one...otherwise I might have to see if I can purchase one from Asus.
 
leeland said:
expanding on that thought...you mention OEM media...hp and dell...

Is it safe to assume that all manufactures (acer, Dell, HP, Asus, etc...) have their own disc's?
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Correct. those media are the tied to the brand of machine.

If you can get any version of the windows 7 media, as long as its not a oem tied media, and delete the ei.cfg file and reburn or make a bootable flash drive and your set
 
Dahak said:
Correct. those media are the tied to the brand of machine.

If you can get any version of the windows 7 media, as long as its not a oem tied media, and delete the ei.cfg file and reburn or make a bootable flash drive and your set
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ok...I read about that last night...I also found a link which I can post to a program that apparently takes care of the ei.cfg stuff against the ISO file...

I will give it a try tonight and report back.
 
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