P permaglaze Reputable Aug 14, 2014 1 0 4,510 Aug 14, 2014 #1 My friend is throwing away his laptop with windows 7 installed. Can I use his disks to install windows 7 on my machine? what if he has formatted his drive or upgraded to windows 8?
My friend is throwing away his laptop with windows 7 installed. Can I use his disks to install windows 7 on my machine? what if he has formatted his drive or upgraded to windows 8?
rgd1101 Don't Moderator Nov 7, 2011 74,435 4,112 176,290 Aug 14, 2014 #2 it is a prebuild laptop? they usually have OEM windows, which only work for that laptop. Upvote 0 Downvote