Clean Windows 7 Installation to New 120GB SSD for OEM PC

Hi,

I have an OEM PC that I purchased a couple years ago that came with Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit installed. I used Anytime Upgrade and upgraded it to Win 7 Professional. I do not have the upgrade key written down anywhere.

I purchased a 120GB SSD and want to move the OS to that drive. I’d really like to do a clean OS install without the OEM freeware, and because some programs no longer run correctly. But since all I had were the OEM recovery disks, I tried using those to install

the OS on the SSD. It ran for hours and seemed to hang. Could be a bad SSD, but I think that the OEM image with freeware is just too big for the 120GB SSD.

I didn’t want to spend money to move the OS, but figured I’d save myself a lot of aggravation by buying my own copy of Win 7. So I purchased what I thought was a full up version of Win 7 Home Premium from New Egg, but it’s really an “OEM System Builders

Pack. I have not opened this package since I’m not sure if I can use it for this purpose.

I’d appreciate some guidance as to how to proceed. I’d like to end up with a clean small install of Win 7 Professional on the SSD set up as my boot drive. All data and most programs will be on the HDD. Seems like I should be able to do this without buying

a new OS.

Thanks

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