Hi. I am wondering if i bought SSD, HDD and Windows OS and installed Windows onto new SSD, HDD. Would it be possible to make money by selling them?. Would they have to be the same motherboard as mine or could it be different?. Like mine is a gigabyte z77x-ud3h and i formated my own in windows 7 home and UEFI format. How would this work if i would sell these and would it be a good idea?.
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If you want to sell the OS, you'd actually want to sell the key, assuming it's a retial copy it would be worthwhile. But most people wouldn't buy a copy of off you when they can buy an OEM one from a reputable outlet like Amazon/new egg for fairly cheap.
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I would wipe my drive and seell that on eBay, and offer the retail key seperately if you want. Not sure if anyone would byte. And obviously, you'd have to make sure you're not using the key yourself, otherwise the person who buys it won't be able to activate windows.
I'm not sure the license permits reselling it, but you could do it I suppose. I took the hard drive out of one machine and put it in another machine of very different hardware and it booted up and ran fine so there's no reason it can't be done again. I would have to say "yes you can do it" but I won't guarantee it.
Bad idea. It's always recommended to do a fresh install if you change the motherboardMonsieurX
Kinda off topic or on topic here, If you upgrade your motherboard can you transfer windows 8 upgrade to the new motherboard or is that only for ome system builders windows 8?
I've tried researching it but I keep coming up with different answers that don't make a lot of since to me O.o
:edit I mean restalling windows 8 upgrade on to the new motherboard under the same owner. I'm not if I'm making any since, So confused o.o
I want upgrade my motherboard but would like to try save alittle money on OS.Â
[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Bad idea. It's always recommended to do a fresh install if you change the motherboardgt350tsc
Kinda off topic or on topic here, If you upgrade your motherboard can you transfer windows 8 upgrade to the new motherboard or is that only for ome system builders windows 8?
I've tried researching it but I keep coming up with different answers that don't make a lot of since to me O.o
:edit I mean restalling windows 8 upgrade on to the new motherboard under the same owner. I'm not if I'm making any since, So confused o.o
I want upgrade my motherboard but would like to try save alittle money on OS.Â
Yes you can do it. You might have to activate over the phone though however it's pretty easy so it's not really any extra effort.
[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Bad idea. It's always recommended to do a fresh install if you change the motherboardJohnF111
Kinda off topic or on topic here, If you upgrade your motherboard can you transfer windows 8 upgrade to the new motherboard or is that only for ome system builders windows 8?
I've tried researching it but I keep coming up with different answers that don't make a lot of since to me O.o
:edit I mean restalling windows 8 upgrade on to the new motherboard under the same owner. I'm not if I'm making any since, So confused o.o
I want upgrade my motherboard but would like to try save alittle money on OS.Â
Yes you can do it. You might have to activate over the phone though however it's pretty easy so it's not really any extra effort. Thank you., That's cool with me then.
you can not make money by selling your copy of windows cd because no one will purchase it at more rate than microsoft itself and if you sell it at less rate than you will not get profit but you will face loss. so i think it is not a good idea to make money.
[QUOTE="gt350tsc"][QUOTE="JohnF111"]Yes you can do it. You might have to activate over the phone though however it's pretty easy so it's not really any extra effort.roulettethedog
Thank you., That's cool with me then.
You can not use an upgrade version O.S., but a retail or O.E.M. is an easy install where you rarely have to call India.
You can use an upgrade version to make a fresh install. Done it a couple times
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