win7

[damorgue69]

hi

just want to check other peoples thoughts.....

i have a hp desktop machine that runs linux. it came with win7pro, which i don't use on it.
i installed win7pro on a toshiba laptop with a win7pro(not the hp one, a standard version without hps bloatware) dvd and used the code from the hp to register the software, after a week its thrown up an un-authourised code error!!!
is it likely that M$ have clocked that the laptop isn't a hp and decided that i can't use the win7pro code.....or is it something more sinister.....

 

[jenks69]

When you bought the HP laptop did it have Win7 already installed on it? If so there's your problem, it is feasible that the code on the HP laptop is registered against the hardware in that laptop - so when installed on the toshiba laptop things don't add up.

It's against Microsoft copyright to install an OEM license on another machine as they are none transferable - which sucks monkey butt!

 

[ChrisUK]

I'd hazard a guess that it isn't that I've done it hundreds of times on my own hardware.

Im on Windows 7 Ultimate right now using a key I 'harvested' from an Acer Laptop on a Custom Build Desktop PC.

 

[jenks69]

I'd hazard a guess that it isn't that I've done it hundreds of times on my own hardware.

Im on Windows 7 Ultimate right now using a key I 'harvested' from an Acer Laptop on a Custom Build Desktop PC.

but had your harvested key ever been used before even if for pre-install?

 

[TallTom]

I had a copy of XP, non OEM and when my HDD failed on my PC, I rebuilt and then had trouble re-activating.

Phoned MS and had to go through the whole changed hardware process, and thats a non OEM copy.

 

[ChrisUK]

but had your harvested key ever been used before even if for pre-install?

Yes. A customer dropped the laptop down the stairs and had no insurance so said I could keep it.

 

[damorgue69]

the hp came straight from hp to me and has never even been installed, its used as a coding machine, and i prefer to use linux for that (soooo much faster than windows:devil, so the code has never been used with the pc...i'm beginning to think its a hp code and that, that is causing the problem with the toshiba laptop. will remove it anyway and dig out my xp:slayer: disk.....only want windows for itunes for the phone:bang:

 

[ChrisUK]

Your a linux user and own an iPhone? :nutter:

 

[damorgue69]

and i drive a jtd punto.....:devil:

yeah linux and an iphone, probably a bit of an odd mix, but i tried blackberry, htc and samsung...didn't like any of them, besides....siri's working really nice with the voice control on the stereo

 

[fingers99]

Well, I run Linux and don't like my Samsung. But I won't be buying an iPhone until Apple start using a factory in China with a much lower suicide rate among the workforce.