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Wonderful Microsoft
Just so others might do something stupid like I have.
I have several machines and one is a small laptop that came as a 7 downgrade from 8 and I thought I would buy an OEM to try 10 out on another drive. So I wen ahead and installed the OEM onto the new drive and well have got quite to like 10 now and thought may as well dual boot the machine.
Well I swap back in the 7 install drive and dual booted after finding out that because my machine has already had 8 Pro installed on it I was entitled to install 10 from an ISO because the machine had that privilege.
Now after having problems with my main desktop as I said I clean installed 7 using the OEM key for it and thought maybe I could use the 10 OEM to dual boot it as well because it is so handy to have both systems on board.
So I thought I would do the right thing and check with Microsoft and see if I could use the OEM in this circumstance only to find the call centre in heaven knows where that is that they would not allow me to use the 10 OEM key on this machine. In effect I now have a $240 10 OEM DVD that anyone who wants it for a coaster can reply back to me here.
Thanks Microsoft for everything