"Allen Drake" wrote in message ...

I am planning on a fresh install of W7 from my original Home Premium
full version disk that has been upgraded to Ultimate with Anytime
Upgrade so I need to know the procedure well before I begin. I need to
have the key available that will install Ultimate. I tried a repair
install in the past but that only got me to the original version and
would not accept the key I used using Belarc Advisor so I have to
restore my system with a cloned copy and was back at square one. Is
this something that can be done with a call to MS when I try to
activate or some other way? I have never gone through this process
with Win7 although I have done it with WinXP Pro several times.

I have several Windows Home Premium Disks here that I purchased for
other systems but I am not sure which disk goes with what computer.
Are there any differences and will I need to use the right disk when I
do a clean install on all the systems? I plan on doing this because I
want to have a fresh install on the SSDs I am now using to be sure I
have them all aligned properly.

If anyone can post a step by step procedure I would be very grateful.

Thanks.

Al.

If you are currently running Ultimate then you must have an Ultimate key on your system.
If you don't know what it is then run a key search tool to retrieve it:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

As I understand it any Win 7 retail dvd contains all versions regardless of what the label says.
The version actually installed is determined by a small configuration file : ei.cfg.

This page describes how to choose your version at install time:

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-choose-d...-during-setup/

Once you've fixed your iso image your Ultimate key will be accepted.