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I've always been curious about how this work. If I buy a Win machine and want to keep Win (say to dual-boot), how do I do this? Buy a second OS disk? Torrent
by dhimes 12y ago
I've always been curious about how this work. If I buy a Win machine and want to keep Win (say to dual-boot), how do I do this? Buy a second OS disk? Torrent one and use my key?
I get it if I'm wiping out and putting on Linux or something, but that always seems like I'm wasting something I've already bought.
- Alupis 12y agoYou don't have to "waste" the windows license key you purchased... it allows you to do a fresh install and just use that key. You can use any windows ISO or disk to do the fresh install. In fact I think somewhere you can download the Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 ISO's directly from Microsoft.
- dhimes 12y agoOK great- that was exactly what I was asking. The 'backup' files they ask me to make re-installs the original state of the machine- I assume that includes crapware. Thanks.