Thread: Calibre 3.48 and Windows 7
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Old 03-02-2021, 08:31 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
I did something similar last December when I had to rebuild a machine from bare iron. I built windows installation media as described above, putting it on a USB stick, then ran it. When install asked for the product key I entered the original Win7 key. It happily took that and activated the machine.
If you had already updated a machine with that key, it is probably registered. But, somewhere else has implied that MS are fairly lenient with this rule. I think it is to their benefit to let as many systems update as possible.
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