I am running W7 Pro 32 bit......fresh installed it with activation but found that the install wasn't to my perfection. 2 hours later formatted the drive & re installed W7On activation got an error, with several options.......had to call the 1-888 # for support & they gave me 8 i.e A-G 6 digits for each to activate, got activated.This is my 1st experience like this, earlier re installed had no issues with activation. Is the reason that the re install was quick & MS wanted to be sure of no piracy, counterfeit?
I am running W7 Pro 32 bit......fresh installed it with activation but found that the install wasn't to my perfection. 2 hours later formatted the drive & re installed W7. On activation got an error, with several options.......had to call the 1-888 # for support & they gave me 8 i.e A-G 6 digits for each to activate, got activated.
Today I have replaced an AM3 motherboard with an AM3+ and I got the usual message 3 days to activate.
I've tried to activate today using the automated phone line and it says my software is not genuine and then automated phone lady says bye bye. There was no "How many Computers is your software installed on, and no waiting to speak to an agent. JUST BYE BYE.
I've tried customer support typed in Product ID, It tells me my licence has expired. Windows 7 home premium I purchased Full version from PC World back in 2009 then a few months later I purchased the anytime upgrade to Professional.
If I retype in product key for Professional it takes me back to the activation screens 4 options. Ive also tried typing my home premium key that does not work, it says I need a Professional licence which I have but expired.
I dont really want to repair or reinstall it when it is working and no conflicts. I do have Vista and linux on another hard drive which is not connected because graphics card is blocking SATA ports, and right angled connectors are to high as well.
I have a Dell XPS 13 that came with Vista home. I later upgraded to Windows 7 home. The computer began to have intermittent lock up and video failures so I decided to wipe the drive and do a clean install of Windows 7. Now I can't activate windows 7. Since I upgraded this legitimently I should be able to reactivate my system.
I just upgraded my XP system to Win 7 home premium 64bit.But after I installed it, I realized that the my HD is pretty old and may go out soon. So I ordered a new HD and it should be here in a few days.I know I can clone my current installation and copy it to the new HD, but will I have to reactivate win 7 if it is cloned to the same system?
I was running windows 7 home premium perfectly for the last around 7 to 8 months. the other day I updated system bios and thereafter got the message to reactivate windows. I used my product key but turned out to be invalid.
I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit. Using Windows Anytime Upgrade, I upgraded to Win7 Pro. I used a key from a new Win 7 Pro program but did not activate. Can I activate with my old Win 7 Home Premium key since it is the same hardware?
I bought this computer on craigslist and the disk showed some errors, so I went to migrate to an SSD using Clonezilla.The migration to the SSD failed, so I put the HDD back in the system. Now it's telling me I need to reactivate, and the key is not valid.Is this repairable?It is a Lenovo X61s laptop with a Vista Business DVD License on the bottom. Was upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate.... or so I was told.
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I have experienced the cursor "shutting off" after several seconds. Typing anywhere not possible - email, word processing, etc. To reactivate, the mouse had to be left-clicked. After trying literally everything to resolve, I performed a total system restore back to when the laptop was new. Obviously, a Windows 7 update has a serious glitch. I am now getting requests to allow updates and am denying them. How do I keep updates from automatically occurring? I plan to deny updates until I can get Windows 8.
I just spent the last half day fixing a laptop, had to buy a new hard drive and reinstall the OS from recovery discs. (Win 7 64 bit, on Satellite Toshiba) I just noticed that I did not install it with a partition for the OS, Is this going to be a big problem at some point? I had checked off "Factory Settings" when installing, I just assumed that it would have installed with a partition. Before I go any further with this laptop I would like to have some input please. I just spent the last 3 hours installing updates and finally SP1.
My computer was blue screening, freezing, locking up, etc so I took it to a repair shop and to make sure all the hardware was ok. All the tests passed but the problems were still continuing. They eventually decided to reinstall my OS which is Windows 7 and everything's been working fine except my computer is a lot slower and frequently feels laggy where they mouse would freeze up for a few seconds or move slowly across the screen. I have already tried cleaning out my registry with CCleaner and tried defragmenting but to no avail. I was wondering if there is another way to solve my computer lag problem.
So, for performance reasons I need to wipe and reinstall windows on my laptop. Do I need to buy a new registration code [$$ ] or will windows recognize that the computer is the same and let me use the same key??
I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and recently had a system crash. I got a blue screen stating ''hard error'' and my system was promptly restarted. Startup repair tried to do his things but it failed(and did an endless loop in trying to do so). I couldn't boot in safe mode, I couldn't do anything. I resorted to reinstalling Windows 7 using my CD. I took the custom installation rather than the upgrade because the upgrade would essentially lead to the endless startup repair loot. Now, after everything was done, it's said my old Windows is still on the computer under the file name ''Windows old'', I checked and it is indeed there. Wouldn't there be a way to reinstall Windows old? I really don't want to be forced to reinstall all my drivers and updates.
I can't get windows to reinstallI changed the controllers to ahci (because i think the system isnt reconising my ssd as i only get a 5.9 experience score with it) in regedit which seemed to work then changed ahci in bios then windows won't boot , I've tried to run my genuine windows disk to reinstall windows but it won't get past about 20% then I get 'windows cannot install required files, the file does not exist, make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation, error code 0x80070002
i am using thoshiba laptop with OS windows 7. two days back my battery part became very hot and in a quick i turn off my system.But then after i cant boot my system with battery.. that means my battery is dead..bt last day on wards i cant do any thing with my lap...i cant boot..then i tried to re install my system. so i put my os dvd and trid to boot from dvd..any hw it worked and when i select my system drive it is showing a message " windows canot installed to disk 0 part 1". then i formated that drive and tried once again this time also i got the same error message. then i clicked the more details their they are showing the error message" Winodws cannot installed to tjis disc. this computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the bios"
We purchased 2 new computers for work and they both contain Windows 64 bit. Our accounting program is not compatible with 64 bit. I have found a work-around but it isn't very stable (using Windows XP virtual mode).
So, my plan was to reinstall Windows 32 bit on the machine. The machine is an HP 505B Microtower. I have an official version of 32 bit Windows 7 Professional. I understand that the one on the HP is OEM, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it with the serial number (I did back up the activation certificates using the ABR Utility).
I downloaded the ISO from the Microsoft store, so it's an official Windows version. I created a bootable USB drive using DISKPART to clean and format the drive and using the bootsect.exe file from the mounted ISO to make it bootable. I then copy the entire contents of the mounted ISO to the flash drive. I have done this to install Windows 7 before and it has worked flawlessly.
Then when I boot from the flash drive on the HP, it gives me the "Install" screen and then it asks for CD/DVD drivers. I am assuming it really means the SATA drivers for the HD, because the DVD drive isn't even in use at this point. So, I go to the HP site and download the drivers for the storage devices. When I browse to that directory on the CD, Windows Install sees the driver and tries to install it, but still says that it cannot find any appropriate drivers.
I've read about possible reasons this error occurs. Some people have had bad burns from their ISO. Since mine is on a flash drive, it's not the burn. I have re-copied the files. I even re-downloaded the ISO and did the process all fresh just in case some random file was corrupted, still with the same error.
I can't seem to figure out why it won't let me get past the drivers point. I've never had to load drivers when installing Windows 7. All my other installs have gone flawelessly, even on machines that have come with OEM version of Windows.
I've got fundamental problems with my music software (Sonar) that other users and the company can't replicate. After days wasted trying for solutions I've decided the only route is completely clean reinstall of Windows 7.I just tried a custom clean install from the disk, but now on switch on I'm given a choice between 'windows 7' and 'windows 7', the former taking me to a bare bones version (what I need really) and the second to my old fullblown setup that I want to lose. I've got my data on other drives so I'm happy to zap all this. How do I do I good old fashioned format and then a reinstall? I'm not computer savvy so I know I need to proceed carefully as the OS disk I think is part of a real hard drive.
My computer has a ton of viruses and I want to do a clean reinstall of windows 7. My computer originally came with Vista but a year later I upgraded to 7 Home Premium. I upgraded by buying a product key (no disc) from the Microsoft website and downloading some file/application to install 7. I cannot find this file nor can I find anywhere on the Microsoft website which would allow me to download it again.
I bought a HP tm2 notebook and it came with Windows 7 home premium 64bits installed. wanna know if I can re-install windows (with any windows 7 home premiun 64bits DVD) and using the code which is in a sticker in the notebook. Would it become a pirate copy? I wanna re-install windows, because HP installed too many unuseful things and I want a clear instalation.
Its been about 3 years or so since I got my laptop, and well things are starting to run kind of slow. Processor is hitting up to about 30% on idle, which isnt normal. I'm assuming I probably have a whole bunch of junk built up on it, and its probably a good idea for me to reinstall my OS. Question is, how? I have all my recovery disks and everything, but how would I uninstall my whole OS?
I recently bought an upgrade kit version of win7 which said you can use the key 3 timesNow, I upgraded 2 computers in my household and then I bought some hardware for my computer. It said it needed to activate the key again so I accepted. That means I used the key a third time?Now, I want to have a clean reinstall of my pc. Is that possible while keeping my current key activated?
I'm getting a new MoBo and I want to wipe my HDD and reinstall Windows 7.Problem is, I have an OEM diskWould I be able to reinstall Windows 7 from that since its still my system I want to put it back on
I just built my computer and things are really pissing me off. I can't install steam and I was optimizing things for my SSD and the internet doesn't work and it took me a long time to fix that so I just want to start over and delete every single thing from my ssd and hdd(which i couldn't even install things on after i initalized it) and then install windows 7 so how do i do that?
I built my own computer and my hard drive failed after 3 weeks so I got a new hard drive + a new ssd and installed windows and everything was going smooth and then I started optimizing things for my ssd and that's where things went bad. Everything is just a huge mess, can't even install any programs now, so all I want to do is just make my ssd brand new and my hard drive brand new and reinstall windows... How do I do that? Is it the same process like booting off my optical drive? If it is, tell me how I can make my SSD like new and install windows.
After installing/using Norton Power Eraser, my computer is no longer able to boot. I get the "Windows Failed to start" error. The only options are available are Start Windows normally or Launch start-up Repair. I'm guessing I should reinstall windows but I want to do this without deleting any files/data. I tried doing F8 to go into safe mode but that option isn't available.
