SSD Replacing Hard Drive, Windows 7 installation troubles

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I currently own a desktop with Windows 7 on it, obtained through a home upgrade edition. I recently bought an SSD and mistakingly tried to install windows 7 straight from the windows 7 home upgrade cd. I got up to where I could input the product key and it is telling me that it is invalid. I looked up multiple answers saying that I need to have Windows Vista or XP installed on my computer previously in order to upgrade to Windows 7, which means I would have to install either of those onto my new SSD and then upgrade to Windows 7, however the problem is that those CD's are lost to me and I am not sure if I will ever have them again. I want to know if there is some way I can use my current hard drive with Windows 7 on it to "activate" Windows 7 on my SSD to make that drive my primary boot for loading up Windows. Not only that but my computer isn't recognizing my hard drive now at all, ever since I switched the SATA cable that was originally on the hard drive to the new SSD. I'm not sure why my other ports don't work at all.
 
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You can do a fresh install using a Windows 7 upgrade disc using a registry hack. It is not hard with the walk through I pasted the link to below. I ran into the exact same issue some months back with my Win 7 upgrade disc, and after the hack, Win 7 works just fine and is fully activated. I actually had the Win XP disc, but it really made no sense to start my install with a disc from so many eons ago!

http://www.maximumpc.com/how-to-use-your-windows-7-upgrade-disk-on-a-fresh-pc/#page-2
 
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