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‎05-20-2019 01:54 AM - edited ‎05-20-2019 11:30 AM

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Product: hp dv7 product# xz028ua
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

I have a *.1 key from my 2014 Asus that Win10 killed - literally charred my chip! Now MS  state that it's not recommended to run on older systems and throw their adsat me. Grrr.

 

I started upgrading to 8.1 using my old iso cd and found my dead Asu's Win 8.1 serieal number. I was still running on WIN 7 and seemed to be upgrading fine after it approved my serial number, but got stuff at 21%. I figured maybe I should have updated it from BIOS, like usual and ended the update after writing down all my serials numbers I might need.

 

When I got my boot priority pointing to my internal cd drive and restarted, it refused the serial number. Is this for real? Is it because I restarted it?  Is there a work around?

 

Thank you 🙂

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‎05-20-2019 08:38 AM

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OEM product keys won't work across vendors.

So, if what you are trying to do is activate an OS on an HP PC using a product key you took from an ASUS PC, that is not going to work.



I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP

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‎05-20-2019 08:38 AM

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@mjohnson19305 

OEM product keys won't work across vendors.

So, if what you are trying to do is activate an OS on an HP PC using a product key you took from an ASUS PC, that is not going to work.



I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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‎05-20-2019 11:34 AM - edited ‎05-20-2019 11:35 AM

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Oh! .. So sorry. By old I meant a 8.1 iso file i copied  from MS that I put on a cd long time ago. The CD runs fine. Just don't understand why it accepted my serial# once, while upgrading running in windows 7, but then didn't when I ran it through the backend. I haven't tried it again runing from the desktop, but might again. Frustrating.

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‎05-20-2019 11:38 AM

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 .. sorry. didn't read your post well enough. My bad. Was up till 3 am trying to figure this out. So have to buy a key i guess. thanks! 🙂

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