about to reinstall windows but i have OEM upgrade disc.

marc512 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:28

As title says. OEM means you can only use once right? well im going to reinstall windows onto another drive which is on the same pc. Just different drive. Am i still able to use the same product key? if not is there any way to deactivate it?

kae2 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:29

OEM means you can only use it with one motherboard.

marc512 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:33

kae2 said:
OEM means you can only use it with one motherboard.

well im using the same motherboard....so it should be safe?

kae2 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:34

marc512 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:38

kae2 said:
Yes.

cheers! lets just hope it works.

marc512 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:43

i see a lot of forums/sites say you gotta phone up microsoft and give a reason? i have no phone

my mobile broke

CrimsonAvenger · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:46

Should be fine. Done a lot of these over the years and I've only had to call MS twice.

Fingers crossed for you

Burnsy2023 · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:48

You shouldn't' have an issue, and there is no such thing as an OEM Upgrade.

Pygmyshrew · 10 Sep 2010 at 13:46

marc512 said:
i see a lot of forums/sites say you gotta phone up microsoft and give a reason? i have no phone my mobile broke

I've never had any luck using the web activation, since W7 was released i've installed it twice using the same machine and not once has it worked, just use the phone activation and when it asks you if you've installed it on any other machines, if it does, just say no (well you havent!)

Broken phone? ask a friend/do it at work? Just write down the long codes on a piece of paper.

robinbredin · 10 Sep 2010 at 19:10

Burnsy2023
You shouldn't' have an issue, and there is no such thing as an OEM Upgrade.

Dell were sending out upgrade disc's, when Win 7 came out.

pumaz · 10 Sep 2010 at 19:49

I bought a Acer Revo 3610 nettop last week and that came with windows 7 pre-installed but no actual physical disk and i wanted to do a re-install to get rid of all the bloat etc.

Anyway I downloaded a OEM version of Windows 7 and installed it, entered the key and it didn't work so i rang the free Microsoft product activation number which was automated, followed instructions and now all works. Never once did i speak to a real person.