I have been posting on the general forum and elsewhere recently, about my new system that I got the parts for just last week. My plan was to build a new system as my current system was built 4 years ago, and it has Vista 64 bit home edition.
I work for a large company, and we have the ability to purchase programs from Microsoft at a good price. I remember I purchased my Vista from them directly, via work, and then I think I had to order the 64 bit disc separately.
Anyway, that was what I used to install Vista.
This last week, I got the parts for my new system, which included the OEM Windows7 64 with SP1 disc, and used an SSD for the first time. I loved the performance of the SSD booting and shutting down, so decided to buy a 128 gb SSD for the old system, as it was getting sluggish.
In preparation for this new SSD, I went to find my Vista disc and the product key. Now this has been 4 years since I last used it...you would think I would put it somewhere safe, wouldn't you? Well, I can not find it to save my life.
I will go to the employee purchase website from work tomorrow and see if there is a way to email MS from my work email, to see if they have a record of my purchase. I don't know if they would replace it even if they find verification of my purchase.
I assume the OEM Win 7 disc I bought from newegg allows for only one license, or one PC, correct?
Another option, I assume, and I am not very knowledgeable about this, but would there be an easy way to move just my Vista from the old hard drive to my new SSD when it comes? And then somehow make the SSD bootable? This would kind of defeat the purpose of a fresh install I know...but at least it would boot faster....
Or any other ideas? If MS has a record of my purchase, will they replace my disc? Or am I screwed?
Thanks in advance
I work for a large company, and we have the ability to purchase programs from Microsoft at a good price. I remember I purchased my Vista from them directly, via work, and then I think I had to order the 64 bit disc separately.
Anyway, that was what I used to install Vista.
This last week, I got the parts for my new system, which included the OEM Windows7 64 with SP1 disc, and used an SSD for the first time. I loved the performance of the SSD booting and shutting down, so decided to buy a 128 gb SSD for the old system, as it was getting sluggish.
In preparation for this new SSD, I went to find my Vista disc and the product key. Now this has been 4 years since I last used it...you would think I would put it somewhere safe, wouldn't you? Well, I can not find it to save my life.
I will go to the employee purchase website from work tomorrow and see if there is a way to email MS from my work email, to see if they have a record of my purchase. I don't know if they would replace it even if they find verification of my purchase.
I assume the OEM Win 7 disc I bought from newegg allows for only one license, or one PC, correct?
Another option, I assume, and I am not very knowledgeable about this, but would there be an easy way to move just my Vista from the old hard drive to my new SSD when it comes? And then somehow make the SSD bootable? This would kind of defeat the purpose of a fresh install I know...but at least it would boot faster....
Or any other ideas? If MS has a record of my purchase, will they replace my disc? Or am I screwed?
Thanks in advance