You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Windows 7 Beta Lab Everything Beta 7. November 7, Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here However, if the user skips and bypass the product key validation by not entering the product key so that Windows 7 installation can continue and finalized, Windows 7 will prompt user to input a product key to activate the system when system is booted up.
The following error may occur when user enter a Windows 7 upgrade version product key after Windows 7 is installed:.
Description: The Software Licensing Service determined that this specified product key can only be used for upgrading, not for clean installations. Officially, Windows 7 Upgrade DVD product key can only be used when the previous qualifying Windows operating system of Windows Vista or Windows XP is currently installed on the hard drive, regardless of activation status. It means that end-user will have to be either running the Windows 7 upgrade from within the operating system or by restarting the computer, booting with the Upgrade DVD and selecting the Custom Install option with existing operating system intact.
For user who has already formatted the hard disk drive and wiped off the existing operating system prior to running the upgrade install of Windows 7, Microsoft recommends one of the following steps to upgrade the computer:. However, all of the above methods is not a time-saving and easiest way to perform upgrade of Windows 7 though. I did not clean install as I didn't think I needed to.
I also did not purchase the DVD kit as I cannot use it on my netbook. After 3 days, it told me I had to activate Windows. I used the upgrade key that I was given and it gave me this error code. I have read on the forums about a previous version of Windows being installed but im not too sure what this means. So is Windows telling me I can only use this code to upgrade and I need another one to activate?
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