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Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 09:51:16 »
I may want to uninstall and reinstall Windows 7.

Part of the reason would be to move from a regular hard drive to an SS drive.

I am concerned about "using up" my installations, and/or having Micro$oft worry that the old installation is still active.

What do you do to uninstall or deactivate the current installation, so that the new one takes its place?

In the past, I just wiped and rebuilt, but once, recently, Office 2007 told me that I had used up my installations when I tried to reinstall it on my daughter's computer after a new Windows 7 format.

Thanks!
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 09:54:46 »
pretty sure when you reboot with t he win7 disc in you can get it to go through the install process and tell it to format your c-drive
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 10:18:21 »
OEM or retail version?

Generally with HDD changes you will not have a problem. If you do, the install may require a call to Microsoft. First step (which is usually enough) is you get connected to an automated helper that will give you a reactivation code. If that doesn't work you can get in touch with a real person and explain to them your HDD wasn't working well so you moved to a SSD.
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 11:29:25 »
If you want to remove windows installed on your computer, format the partition where windows are placed. As long as one of your boot loader settings is CD-ROM, your computer lead you installation menu when you boot your computer up with windows 7 cd.
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 17:21:44 »
Thanks folks, but I suppose that I did not make my question clear.

Is there any specific "uninstall" procedure that "frees up" my disc/code/number and/or to notify MicroSoft that I am not still installed on the old hard drive?
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That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 17:23:46 »
Nope!
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 18:32:46 »
Thanks, Prof!

Just what I needed - a one word answer.

But here is another question: I got an SSD today and it is a 2.5" but came with a 3.5" aluminum plate for mounting in a 3.5" bay.

Do these things get hot? Should I put a little squirt of thermal grease between them and make that mounting plate into a heat sink also?
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 18:46:28 »
Nope SSD dont get hot at all
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 20:39:20 »
The SD card in my camera gets hotter (since it's crammed inside the camera).
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Re: Manage Windows 7 - uninstall and reinstall
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 07 December 2012, 21:18:03 »
some cases even have like side mounting behind the mb for ssd's since they barely get hot, imo ssd's are the last component you would have to worry about in terms of thermals. did you look at easeus, it's a partition backup software, and free i used it to move my broken ssd raided install to a crappy regular hd, and then move that to a real 128g ssd. i really hate reinstalling an os, even mine. (especially since i reinstalled my kitchen laptop(it fell off the counter, and the mbr was messed up beyond /r repair)and reinstalling wifes from win8 back to win7).
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