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i bought the upgrade.

so it's not possible to have both OS installed without having one of them being inactivated?

 Unless you bought full retail copies of both, I don't believe so. If you have the full retail version, you can re-activate whenever you want (as long as it's only ever on one computer). Buying retail is useful if you change your hardware often and want to be able to re-activate windows.

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so basically i had windows 7 installed when i bought this laptop and i created a recovery disk for it.
then i upgraded to windows 8, but now I want to go back to windows 7 without losing my windows 8.

basically i'm asking:
is it possible to split my hard drive into C and D and then using my recovery disk, re-install win7 onto D while i keep win8 on C

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Did you buy an upgrade disk, or a retail copy of Windows 8? If it was the upgrade CD, your Windows 7 license is no longer valid. I'm not sure about the retail version, but I'd imagine as long as you have your Windows 7 license sticker from the manufacturer, then it should still be valid. You might have to call and re-activate it.

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Did you buy an upgrade disk, or a retail copy of Windows 8? If it was the upgrade CD, your Windows 7 license is no longer valid. I'm not sure about the retail version, but I'd imagine as long as you have your Windows 7 license sticker from the manufacturer, then it should still be valid. You might have to call and re-activate it.

i bought the upgrade.

so it's not possible to have both OS installed without having one of them being inactivated?

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i bought the upgrade.

so it's not possible to have both OS installed without having one of them being inactivated?

 Unless you bought full retail copies of both, I don't believe so. If you have the full retail version, you can re-activate whenever you want (as long as it's only ever on one computer). Buying retail is useful if you change your hardware often and want to be able to re-activate windows.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

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