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Need to downgrade from Professional to Home Premium without the DVD

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I have bought a second hand computer and the seller has done a fresh install of Windows but he has installed Professional and the license key on the laptop is for Home Premium. The installed version does not accept it and I have no other key (contacting the seller for something is not possible). I use none of the features that make the difference between the versions so I want to downgrade the...

reconnect to user folders

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I am aware there are many articles showing how to move user folders during or after installing win 7. What I am thinking of is something different: How would I reinstall (clean install) win 7 on drive c if I already have the user folders (documents, pictures, videos, desktop) on a separate drive d? Would it work if after installation I include the drive d folders in the library and mark...

A required CD/DVD device driver is missing.changing usbports wont work

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Im trying to install windows 7 from a usb but i cant get past the 'A required CD/DVD device driver is missing'. Iv tried changing usb ports like i read but it seems to work for everyone but me. Please help me :)

Clean Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64 Install

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Hello- I have a new machine that I bought from HP last April. I want to upgrade to an SSD and have a question regarding the installation media. I downloaded the Windows 7 file from Digital River before Microsoft pulled it. The file has been unlocked with the 'ei.cfg' utility so that I can see all 4 Windows 7 program file versions. Windows 7 Pro SP1 is #3 on the table. My question...

Install of Windows 7 over Windows Vista

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Hello, When I installed Windows 7 it would't let me upgrade from Windows Vista but forced me to do a completely new install of Windows 7 and moved the Windows Vista into Windows.old. My question is I believe it is safe to delete the Windows.old folder but I was wondering can I delete the Program Files and Program Files(x86) folders too since the programs in those would have to be reinstalled...

Win 7 Home Premium in Locked state need help to restore paid for key

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I will try to explain this in a clear way: I am a current student who has a Desktop and a Laptop. My Desktop was a fully functioning 7 Home Prem install using an upgrade from Windows XP. Windows xp was already on this used Desktop (custom build) with no CD Key or Media available to me. Windows 7 upgrade was valid and paid for by me. I recently began school again and setup my Mac Laptop with...

Adding SSD in 2nd laptop bay for Win 7

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Okay so I have a couple of questions. I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 256GB SSD for my wife's Asus A73 laptop. It has 2 drive bays and an existing HDD partitioned as C: (235 GB) and D: (415GB). I planned to use the Samsung Migration software to clone C: from HDD to SSD leaving D: alone. However the instruction included don't seem to consider adding the drive, only replacing HDD with SDD, as it...

convert to SSD without Dell's Windows installation media

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I bought a Dell Latitude E5410 with no installation media. It's out of warranty so Dell installation media will not be free. I bought a new SSD. I want to put the SSD in the Dell and install Windows 7 Pro and use the Windows Certificate of Authenticity that came with the Dell. Do I have to spend a lot of time figuring out Dell's way of producing some sort of Windows 7 installation disk, which...

Repair disk doesnt boot. 10 second blank screen > Normal boot-up.

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I'm trying to run a windows repair disk, I've changed the order of the boot-up sequence in F2 (Setup Utility) and F8 (Boot Manager), but neither of these does anything to change the boot sequence, my CD Drive works fine and is propely represented in the boot manager, but still no luck in getting the repair disk to run. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. :)

config failing after fresh install-many many fails

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Hello folk, hoping someone can point us to a resolution here. We did a fresh install of Windows Seven on our quite old desktop, specs below, and all seemed to go quite well until we got to updating. We got SP1 on, though it took longer than it ought and IIRC we did have a couple of failed installs and invoked a Microsoft Fixit. Couldn't say whether it worked or not, but we got some more...

Install windows - updates fail/hang, etc

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Hi I've tried installing win 7 twice now but the windows updates won't install properly and other problems occur like check disk not working or driver updates hanging. System restore has now left my computer practically nonfunctional. Any help thanks

Plz help im using iphone as my comp is middle of win 7 install

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i have asrock z97 extreme6 (trying to install win 7)and newest bios and i cant seem to find answer most have issues with m2 i have a reg ssd to do a uefi setup what do i need to set the CSM settings to? i can enable disable CSM and there are three sub menues. 1. launch pxe oprom policy 2. launch storage oprom policy 3. launch video oprom policy there are 3 options for the first 2 do not...

Solved New Z97/Win7 64 build - multiple drives, OS won't install

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Good afternoon, I've been avoiding this but after 2 days of trying to get windows installed on any of three drives I am losing it after spending $3000 on a new machine. First problem - initialling OS on 3 TB HDD after one day it worked, although I am not exactly sure what happened, just clicked next after 40 try's and it worked. Next trying to install OS on either 2 x SSD's in RAID0 or...

EFS Question about Restoring Prior Windows Installation (windows.old)

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I'm planning to restore my previous windows installation using the windows.old folder because I lost access to a LOT of files after I clean-installed windows (Win7 64 -> Legit Win7 64) because I (foolishly) encrypted using the built in Windows EFS instead of TrueCrypt for some reason I can't remember :sarc: I -think- I have tried everything with regards to finding the old keys in my windows.old...

Upgrading to an ssd using recovery media/fresh install

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Hi, everyone. This my first post, so I'm excited. Anyway, I am about to upgrade my 1TB hdd with a samsung 550 pro 512gb. I plan to swap the hdd with the ssd and then boot to my usb recovery stick. My question us this : will my laptop be able to recognize the new ssd to use for the installation? I have an hp encvy 15 inch slim quad

Really need help w/ diskpart for win7 install

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in middle of win 7 install and im trying to get around the generic win 7 x64 3 partitions ( installng to 250 gig ssd in 3 parts will kill my available space for games like COD do u guys think its worth it or should i install games to the raptor?) so looked it up online and managed to partition my C: ssd as primary and i dont know how to partition the reg D: (what partiton type) really be great...

W7 HP x64 fresh install - won't detect usb flash drive for drivers

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Hi, just installed W7 on a new build and can't get the drivers installed. I was having issues during the installation - it was hanging on finalizing settings - and did a new install without the ethernet connected. Installation worked, but no drivers were installed. Now it won't read a usb drive so I can't manually install the drivers. I don't have a CD/DVD drive either. At this point, I'm...

Use the ISO created with Windows Media Creation tool on another PC

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My PC is running W-10 Pro. The PC I'm going to upgrade runs "W-7 Home". As long as I specify that when selecting the version, I'm guessing I shouldn't have a problem?? I still have a problem in my mind that I can't use a download from a PC with a different Product Key to load on anotherPC from the old days. :confused:

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Hard drive errors holding up Windows install - How do I fix them?

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I have rebuilt my previous Core 2 Quad system but I have hit problems with Windows 7 installation. The partitions were too small so I deleted 2 tiny Win XP partitions and wanted to combine them and resize data partition to give me enough room to install Windows 7 x64. However the partitioning software would not resize the data partition after deleting the two 10GB partitions. It looks like...
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