DELL DIMENSION E521 + Windows 7

Hello everyone - this is my first post!

I have a Dell Dimension e521 that came with Windows XP Professional pre-installed (real key and everything).

I bought this machine of opportunity without hard drives or disks of the driver/operating system. At first I tried using a couple of genuine oem Windows XP Home Edition activation keys that are working flawlessly on other physical machines or virtual, I had. I also had a untouched XP Professional oem drive, which, despite my genuine key did not work.

When I tried to install XP Home OEM on a disk sata hard freshly arrived, I bought off of eBay (I wiped with activekilldisk/dbandiskwipe first) I couldn't go past the window product key during the installation of XP even if the same drive and the same key had been used without fault on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop among other scenarios (cleaned). I also used the same disk XP Home oem combined with the touch of the inspiron and it worked.

I finally gave up, called Dell Sweden, said that I was not the first owner of the machine, I bought this what and second-hand and they agreed to send me the original disk DELL Windows XP operating system for a small fee. When I used this Dell disc combined with the product key on the computer case, everything worked!

THUS, the question at issue. I want to buy a genuine OEM Windows 7 Home Premium x 64 edition, paste the label of the product key on the top of the Dell case and install this instead of Windows XP Professional. I'll be able to do this, or Windows 7 like XP before him, will stop at the product key/activation step?

On a sidenote: as a prior warning should the original Dell XP disc to get scratched or damaged I recently created an image file with IMGBurn cloned and wrote the backup disk image. Accept my cloned copy or can the machine that's not the original?

Thank you!

Oh, I also wanted to talk... you said you were trying to install XP Home disks (at least some of them), but you said your license for XP Professional... Pro requires a key Pro and Home requires a key to the House, because they are not interchangeable, nor is a key "greater" good for a lower version (key Pro will not work on the House).

"I really don't understand why the Dell key does not work with an iso-disk of Windows XP Professional without brand." The Dell machine is locked by the key original and original media? Say, original disc destroyed before performing a copy/image. »

XP was VERY picky with his keys.  Everything had to match - channel (VL, OEM, Retail), and each has been given to accept certain keys.  Dell Media wouldn't work on other brands (not 100%, but in general), media HP wouldn't work on other brands (which is true).  The key OEM always and only belongs to the system with which it was SOLD, and it had to be only in the media use it right.  Brand of OEM disks would be auto / auto activate using a generic OEM SLP key integrated into the installation CD.  Generic OEM doesn't have this feature without the system integrator using the generator/Deployment Toolkit to implement.

(a) Yes, you can use a copy of the installation disc - made repeatedly (fortunately I worry is no longer for XP)

(b) Yes, you can do a clean Windows 7 install, regardless of the type of media you get; Microsoft designed to use the detail in your situation, not OEM - that's all what I was saying it.

"Another thing with the commercial version - I only need 7 for a specific machine, not 3"

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