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SteveMann1
I have two ancient Sony Laptops that were running Windows 7 Home Premium.
I upgraded both to Windows 10.
But, the device drivers for my Firewire got hosed in the process and there appears to be no Windows 10 drivers for my Firewire and other hardware in the laptop. In fact, in Device Manager, I have never seen so many yellow triangles. Ethernet, WiFi, Firewire and other hardware were all not working.
I needed to go back to Win 7, but I had deleted the .old folder because he HD was only 120gb. (Yes, big mistake).
I still had one of the HD drives with Win 7 from the laptop (during the upgrade to Win 10 I cloned one HD to an SSD). So, I cloned it again to restore both laptops to Win 7. Laptop A with its original Win 7 HDD, and Laptop B with the cloned copy of Win 7.
The cloned laptop (B) activated with no errors, but now I have two laptops with the same Win 7 product key.
Should I worry? Is there a way to enter the original key? And, if yes, do I need to activate it again?
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I upgraded both to Windows 10.
But, the device drivers for my Firewire got hosed in the process and there appears to be no Windows 10 drivers for my Firewire and other hardware in the laptop. In fact, in Device Manager, I have never seen so many yellow triangles. Ethernet, WiFi, Firewire and other hardware were all not working.
I needed to go back to Win 7, but I had deleted the .old folder because he HD was only 120gb. (Yes, big mistake).
I still had one of the HD drives with Win 7 from the laptop (during the upgrade to Win 10 I cloned one HD to an SSD). So, I cloned it again to restore both laptops to Win 7. Laptop A with its original Win 7 HDD, and Laptop B with the cloned copy of Win 7.
The cloned laptop (B) activated with no errors, but now I have two laptops with the same Win 7 product key.
Should I worry? Is there a way to enter the original key? And, if yes, do I need to activate it again?
Continue reading...