Gaming want to restore my windows 7

[fst312]

right now i'm telling myself i want to get rid of my windows 7 ultimate.reason its not not a real copy.i removed wat before when i bought a serial number months ago from ebay for like $18 just to find out like 6 months later its not genuine anymore.so i reinstalled wat.the thing is i don't want to update my win 7 just to find out i have a non genuine copy again.
what i want to know is if its possible to go back to windows 7 home premium without restoring factory setting.i don't need windows ultimate,besides the reason i liked it was because i like seeing the word ultimate when starting up my computer.

 

[fst312]

every site i go to talks about a recovery disk or partition drive. i don't have a recovery disk but i do have a partition drive for recovery and this searching without losing data on google.

i might try this

http://www.pcworld.com/article/212573-2/re..._your_data.html

just got to finish reading it than back up my whole computer.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Format and reinstall.

There is no 'downgrade' path.

 

[Lacius]

It looks like all you need to do is install Windows Loader 1.9.7.

Do you have the WAT update installed, KB971033? If yes you may have got flagged as non-genuine. In order to become genuine again just do the following.

• Launch the loader application and select to uninstall
• Restart the PC
• Install the loader and restart the PC
• Visit the following website to re-validate Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/validate/validatenow.aspx

 

[Pyrmon]

How about just using a windows 7 activator tool?

 

[exorcist]

Windows Loader 1.9.7 is one way but if the computer has a slic2.1 bios you could just install a new oem ultimate key and cert.

If Windows 7 Home Premium was factory installed chances are it has slic2.1 to check for slic2.1 run "slic dump toolkit 3.2" (google it)

 

[fst312]

just got the windows loader 1.9.7 from what i read online this is better than wat and safer.i can update my windows 7 ultimat now since this works with service pack 1.
now all i have to do now is run this thing.

thanks for the replies

edit
i'm going to keep myself as windows 7 ultimate

 

[Joe88]

as for the key not working

im pretty sure it used to be a MSDN key that people were mass selling, microsoft then bans these keys after finding out about it

 

[Hatchetball]

Chew-WGA 0.9 works just fine. No need to downgrade and go through all the trouble.
Just crack it and enjoy your computer