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Got a copy of Win 7 from ebay.
Looks like I have been stung.
Have been given a refund through paypal from the seller.
Getting a box at the bottom r/h corner of the screen saying the software is counterfeit.
The disc and packaging is kosher, everything was sealed when I got it, but
Microsoft in the US are telling me that the product key has been used to install it on 4 machines.
Hence it won't accept installation on mine.
Despite the guy in the States saying he could sell me a product key for $99 if I lived there, the bloke I rang in Amsterdam this morning says MS in the UK don't sell Win 7 keys anymore.
The COA on the disc box has OA on it, which, now I look at it, points to it having been pre-installed on another HDD.
So, my question is this:
To legitimise my copy of Win 7, can I just buy a (hopefully this time) kosher copy of Win 7 and use the key?
Or is the fact that this copy is "OA" going to present difficulties?
IE am I going to have to DBAN the HDD and reinstall from scratch?
When you buy Windows is the difference in the software (whether it is full retail, OEM or OA) on the disc or is it in the product key you enter?
Or, put another way, is the software on the disc identical (assuming you buy the same version of Windows) whether it is the OA, OEM or full retail software?
Looks like I have been stung.
Have been given a refund through paypal from the seller.
Getting a box at the bottom r/h corner of the screen saying the software is counterfeit.
The disc and packaging is kosher, everything was sealed when I got it, but
Microsoft in the US are telling me that the product key has been used to install it on 4 machines.
Hence it won't accept installation on mine.
Despite the guy in the States saying he could sell me a product key for $99 if I lived there, the bloke I rang in Amsterdam this morning says MS in the UK don't sell Win 7 keys anymore.
The COA on the disc box has OA on it, which, now I look at it, points to it having been pre-installed on another HDD.
So, my question is this:
To legitimise my copy of Win 7, can I just buy a (hopefully this time) kosher copy of Win 7 and use the key?
Or is the fact that this copy is "OA" going to present difficulties?
IE am I going to have to DBAN the HDD and reinstall from scratch?
When you buy Windows is the difference in the software (whether it is full retail, OEM or OA) on the disc or is it in the product key you enter?
Or, put another way, is the software on the disc identical (assuming you buy the same version of Windows) whether it is the OA, OEM or full retail software?
