Bootlegged windows 7 ultimate mistake, help?

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So i have my desktop that has windows 7 home premium. Just last night i was being stupid and burned a free copy of ultimate to a flash drive and booted it up and installed it. everything is messed up on my computer. i cant even sign into ultimate because i cloned my my home premium hard drive to my second hard drive which i believe had the ultimate on it. home premium is somewhere ready to be booted with everything. and all my programs and documents are in a folder called windows.old. when i was on ultimate i had no desktop icons and no programs, no nothing. thats why i am here today to ask any of you guys to help me. ive posted this problem about 5 times already and nobody has given me the proper help. This is what my main goal is.

-Get rid of win 7 ultimate
-Return to home premium with everything on it
-forget about everything i did before i blow my brains out spending money to get it fixed (if its even fixable) 

Additional info- i have no home premium install cd but i do have a premade copy of the recovery disk. the ultimate was burned to a udb flash drive which i regret doing in the first place.
Also i have no current access to the internet on the weird version of ultimate. since i cloned my hard drive the ultimate got messed up leaving me only task manager on safe mode.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

if you have another computer plug the hard drive into it and do not boot from it. than copy the files from windows.old to the hard drive on the other computer. Than just reformat the other computer that u screwd up and than transfer the files back.

Albert W · Answer

Hi there,

Try swapping the hard drives then see if your computer will boot up in Home Premium.
That might work for you. If it does then you can retrieve your files from "windows old" to the new C Drive.After you have your files you can format the second drive and you will be "in business" again.

If that does not work then I would just buy an OEM disk with Win 7 Home Premium and install in C Drive and format the other drive after retrieving the files you want.

An OEM copy will cost about...$ 100- (link below). An OEM version can be used on (only) this computer as often as you need to reinstall. A 65 bit version or a 32 bit version costs the same.
If you are running the 32 bit version that would be the one to buy ( same with 64 bit).

Not only will this easily solve the problem but you will then have Win 7 Home Premium on disk for future reinstalling. 

Hope this helps,
Al

Anonymous · Answer

well ... you could try installing it into a virtual machine, and see if it works. otherwise, just wait till later this month when the genuine Windows 7 will be available in the shops (for cheaper than vista !).

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