Can I validate Win7 64bit with a key from x86 version?

[MheAd]

I've kind of "borrowed" a key for validation of x86 Professional version of Win7.
If I download one of those try-out ISOs of 64bit Professional version, do you think it will be possible to make it valid with this key?

[Herzeg Dva]

http://windows7center.com/forums/windows-7-general-discussion/3548-interchangeable-keys-between-x86-x64.html

According to this the keys are interchangeable. However you can't tell for sure until you try it yourself.

I wonder how the blacklisting process takes place. Some use key generators but are still blacklisted.

[DeadMeat]

no idea mate, not currently using windows 7 ...

mind if i go off topic a bit?

i'm currently considering buying a macbook pro, and would then want to use boot camp to install windows 7 for the dual boot solution ... but wondering whether i should buy a retail windows 7 key ... but that kinda depends a bit on whether the chance of fubaring something is high if i use an "alternative" way to get windows 7?

[MheAd]

I'm pretty sure this key won't be blacklisted.
I cannot tell here (just in case) where it is from - but it's a "single-key-for-many-users" type of key, so it won't be anything weird in the fact that people are actually using it on many different computers!
 

[Herzeg Dva]

Oh you mean it's a VLK. No worries then!

And DM, sorry I don't even go near those maccy things.

[MheAd]

Yep, it is the VLK...no doubt about that, originally obtained for a copy of x86 Professional version of Win7.
So can I basically install *any* Win7 version and use this key? Even those warez-ones, but instead of cracking them just installing them properly and use this key?

[Herzeg Dva]

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_7/Q_25410087.html

can't your 'inside man' give you the OS disc as well? it seems VLK distributions are different from retail ones, according to the first response above. If the Win7 image you download is VLK itself then it's already pre-cracked, which leaves us with the chicken and the egg dilemma. ie by re-activating a VLK product you might have this genuine VLK blacklisted.

If you can get a 'clean' VLK copy of Win7 then I guess you're set.

[MheAd]

I do have a clean VLK copy of Win7 but it's x86 and I have no ability to get my hands on the 64-bit version - thus this "project" here that I'm trying.

[Herzeg Dva]

I say go for it. If all else fails you can always go back to XP (joke!)

[MheAd]

Well, if 32-bit XP could allocate entire range of 4GB ram, believe me, I would stick to XP! The best Windows OS ever - although it took them 10 years to make it that way (with millions of patches)

32-bit Linux can actually allocate more than 3.5 GB via PAE. I'm, however, ditching 32bit OSs soon either way, and switching to 64 bit Linux and Win7.

[Atebash]

It will work. We have several Windows 7 keys at my company and they are just for Windows 7 Professional (corporate version) and work for either x86 and x64. Doesn't matter at all.

Also, I have my own Windows 7 Ultimate and it comes with 2 DVDs - x86 and x64, along with a single key.

[MheAd]

Well, it seems to be working. Just installed virtual guest on my Linux of Win7 Professional x64, and validated it successfully using my original key.

This also makes me thinking of Ultimate-version. Technically. what are differences between Pro / Ult versions?

Is Ultimate also more of a resource hog in any way?

[Atebash]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions