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Finally got it installed and activated. After hours and hours of pain I feel a little bit of a fool - '.... did you check the fuse in the plug first?...'. My problem was the cpu on my motherboard - there was an intel issue, I was never going to be able to upgrade. A fix was available (new microcode from intel) and addressed by a bios update. So ..... activated win7 in place, run the upgrade tool and it went through like clockwork. Hmm.......