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Deleted Entire HDD, Operating System Not Found - Wont boot from CD

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Hi I hope somebody on this knowledgeable forum can help me after a very silly mistake I had committed when trying to reinstall/reformat my friend's Samsung R519 Laptop and do a clean install of windows 7. I had used the tutorial below, using diskpart to 'clean all' How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 7 « How-To Geek Forums...

Window's Vista Product Key

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So my mom got my little brother a pc to play games on like minecraft, He's 8. So I want it to be a suprise. for his birthday soon and I cant activate it was a window vista when I got it now I upgraded it to a windows 7 64 bit, off a disk. and its not accepting the key I tried everything recreating / rebuilding the licensing store. really everything it just saids Invalid product key. I have the...

How to unravel my mess with Windows Installation NTLDR

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Hi Its a long story with a bad ending (so far) but I will try to be as brief as possible. Recently I got a secondhand hp laptop that was running Windows 7. I also got a home made copy of Windows7. Thinking I was clever, I decided to reinstall Windows from the disc to erase any left over stuff from the previous user. The home made disc worked but when I went to register it with the HP...

Motherboard Died - How Can I Successfully Boot My Windows 7 Install

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My computers motherboard has died - won't boot, power supply checks out OK, no response even with all hardware disconnected. Its seven years old, so I've ordered new a new mobo, cpu, ram to replace my build. My question - is there a way to get my current Windows 7 install to boot on my new hardware so I can then do my Windows 10 free upgrade ( I hadn't upgraded to 10 as of yet)? I thought...

How do i install on my laptop windows 7 home premium ?

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My product key on the back of the laptop is built from 5 parts each part built from 5 letters and/or numbers. I used the tutorial for clean install of windows 7 and went to the download page where you need to enter the product key. When i enter it after a minute or two i'm getting a message: A problem with the identification. Make sure your key product support the product on this site. My...

Maybe someone here can upload his windows 7 iso file ?

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Maybe someone here cna upload his windows 7 iso file in this case home premium to some site so we can download the iso ? When i'm going here to the digital river links: Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life (http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/) When i click on the bottom on the english windows 7 home premium iso i'm getting...

Cannot re-install Windows 7 formatting C drive

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So, I want to re-install Windows 7. And, to make sure I have a clean install, I want to format my C drive. Very easy, just change my BIOS to boot from DVD, insert my LEGAL COPY of Windows 7, and there we go. The computer picks up the DVD bootable drive, states to enter a key in the time-out window, and I enter the Windows installation program. Nice. But, then it states : "Windows failed...

Home Premium to Ultimate upgrade ??

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Does anyone know if the upgrade from home premium to ultimate is still available, and if it is how do I get it ? I have looked at some prices around the net and they have shot up something awesome, plus it is no longer available via the upgrade option in windows cPanel

Universal Image

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HI all, First time posting to a Forum. I need some help. I'm trying to take an image copied from one machine onto a hard drive and install it on a completely different hardware setup. I know it can be done, I'm just not sure how. Looking for ideas on how to approach the problem and fix the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

install windows homebasic x64 on hp 1023tu

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I am having hp 1023tu laptop. Windows homebasic x 64 was installed on it with name x16- 96081. I formatted the laptop and lost genuine os. Now i want to install homebasic x64 , i tried formatting by bootable usb with ei.cfg deleted then selecting windows homebasic x64. all installation process is completed then windows restart and it shows the blue screen error and windows again restart. ...

Windows enterprise creating a new user

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I have an old laptop from work which I want to use at home..no more work use or logging into work domain. Is there a way to create a new user and not have the computer boot asking for the logon info for the work domain. Is there a way to reset the group policies? Do I have to wipe and do a new windows install. Windows 7 Enterprise laptop Cheers Dave

"Setup was unable to create a new system partition" even after format

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I had a completely unexpected system failure while I was checking my email one day. Windows shut down unexpectedly. When I restarted, there was no OS detected. Afterwards, I decided to do a fresh install of 7 from a bootable USB. During install, I was unable to install to my SDD when windows said only 32 MB were available. I deleted all partitions using through Windows installation. Still no...

repair install not working

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ok I have win7 pro 64bit installed sp1 an ie11 ,tryin to do a repair install, have my oem disk that says its older than the version that I have (so it won't repair) I've looked at a lot of posts tryin to figure this out, m$ website won't let me download anything w/o going thru msdn, kinda at a loss, really don't want to do a reinstall ,so whats next? suggestions? help? any way to uninstall sp1...

Windows 7 Download tool - how do I create bootable USB drive

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Good evening I have Windows 7 PC, and would like to create a bootable version of OS on a USB drive The instructions seem to apply to people who downloaded Windows from a web site. I did not. Windows was already installed on PC I purchase Once I download the Windows Download tool, can I make a bootable copy of OS on USB drive from Windows on my desktop? Thank you

Various issues with installing Windows 7 installation.

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I wanted to do a reinstall of Windows 7 and so far it's done nothing for me except cause stress and frustration. First it tells me it cannot install to disc because it's GPT, whatever that means... So I'm told to do Shift+F10 and enter these commands: diskpart select disk 0 clean convert GPT This appeared to work but then I got a different message. It reads "Windows cannot be installed...

Can I re-install a Windows SSD image onto an HDD?

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My Windows 7 ultimate SP1 64bit OS is located on my SSD which fails to update to Windows 10, I would like to try the update on an HDD to see if that works. I have tried all various suggestions to get the update installed on the SSD. Is it possible to re-install a Windows 7 SSD image on an HDD within the same computer? with the hope that it will update to Windows 10 so that I can register the...

clean install of Windows 7 on new 250GB SSD

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This is my first post on this web site. I certainly not a guru and could use some help of this is the way you ask for it. At 78 I am kind of slow and methodical but am willing to follow detailed instructions as to how to keep my old pc going. The Windows community has convinced me to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a new 250GB SSD that is replacing my HDD. The C: HDD is getting errors...

Can't get to recovery partition using f9 ASUS laptop

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Hi I can't get to the recovery partition so i can reset windows back to its factory settings Screenshot of disk management attached

remove win xp (in primary partion) in dual boot with windows 10

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I have windows xp and windows 10 dual boot. I want to remove windows xp which is in the primary partition and that disk has booting files. So i cant format hat disk. Also that drive doesnt show up in my computer in windows 10, though it shows up in disk management. So i even want to get that disk back without windows xp. I have a small partition of 9 mb which was aleady present. How can i move...

triple boot XP, Win7 and Win 10- issue with EasyBCD

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Hi. I am not sure where my problem started, so I will give a description of my entire project. I will try to be concise and brief. I have a dual boot XP/Win7 system. I was given a free upgrade to Win10 through Win7, and I wanted to try it out without loosing my Win7 system (I don't want to lose access to certain applications-same reason I am keeping XP). At the same time, I want to upgrade to...
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