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You can copy/paste your license key from a file later when it is needed. The smart thing to do is to use the export-option to an USB stick. There is a free edition available for download and it just magically tells you your Windows installation key. My choice is The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder. To dig out the SLP-key, you will need a special piece of software. It is hidden intentionally, for the reason that nobody would ever try anything I'm about to describe in this post. It is a possibility, but not my first choice as there are other options available.Д®very OEM Windows 7 also has an OEM System Locked Pre-installation key. This OEM COA key can be used to activate a Windows 7 installation only via phone. The sticker has the Certificate of Authentication (COA) key. To put it briefly, in every OEM machine there must be a sticker somewhere. The difference of those is explained in detail in this article. When talking about OEM Windows 7 licenses, following license types exist OEM Channel SLP, NONSLP and COA License Product Keys. These are pretty much the only differences when installing to SSD instead of HD, but I definitely wanted to get all of my performance settings right from the beginning. Both of those settings differ when installing to a hard drive.

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Another thing is that Windows 7 fresh install on SSD takes care of setting the TRIM-flag to the partition and aligns the partitions properly on 4096 byte boundaries.

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The HP Backup & Recovery would provide the cleanest start, but still there are a number of weird software being installed, which nobody actually needs or wants. The reason why I abandoned all of those was that I definitely wanted a fresh start without any old payload. Other possibilities would include Clonezilla, Acronis True Image, or similar to transfer the entire drive with all the partitions.

Apparently HP/Compaq chooses to go with this on consumer models. There is an option to create the system recovery image. I found an article Download hp backup & recovery manager which points to softpaq sp45602.exe containing the installer.ДЄnother way would be to use the Windows 7 built-in backup. The HP Backup & Recovery manager was not installed to this Compaq laptop. This has been covered in articles How do I create recovery discs on a Compaq 615 and Creating Recovery Discs or Saving a Recovery Image to a USB Flash Drive (Windows 7). It is possible to create a recovery disc from existing installation. There are three good possibilities of transferring an existing Windows installation to the new drive.

With hardware you paid for the Windows 7 license. You bought the hardware, you own the hardware.

There is nothing illegal in this procedure.

It is possible to re-activate on the new drive when the existing OEM product key has been extracted from the old Windows 7 installation.

It is impossible to transfer the activation from old hard drive to the new one.

Actual Windows 7 license (activation) will be stored on the hard drive, the OEM product key of this installation is not known.

The hardware must has a suitable identification for the OEM partner in its BIOS called SLIC.

HP/Compaq is a Microsoft OEM partner and they get their Windows 7 licenses with special pricing.

The laptop in question is manufactured by HP/Compaq.

In this particular case following circumstances exist: and 'call home' to verify, that you are allowed to run the installation. This literally means, that your Windows will emulate E.T. In Microsoft lingo it is called The Activation. Even in the best case, where you're prepared to lose all of your files and information, the only thing that you need to transfer is your Windows 7 license. So to succesfully replace the hard drive, some preliminary steps are needed. 'All your stuff' includes Windows operating system, your user profile information, settings, background picture of your desktop, all your precious photos.

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It is obvious, that when you remove the old hard drive from your PC and replace it with a new one, all your stuff won't be on the new drive. This is a follow-up post on my previous post about Replacing Compaq 615 hard drive with a SSD.

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