Replaced the hard drive on a G6 Pavillion. Need to reload Windows 7. I have the product key.

I borrowed a windows disc 8 to begin the new hard drive. I was running Windows 8.1 upgrade of Windows 8 beta. I can't register the windows 8 OS with my Windows 8 update product key. Can I just load windows 7 from this point then reload the Windows 8 upgrade?

Thanks for any comments.

v/r,

Rich

I had to order the recovery disk (windows 7) and will take a decision in this sense.

Thank you for your help.

Best regards

Rich

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