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New Drive, but no boot

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So a friend of mine has a Lenovo X140e laptop and it came with an SSD of 128GB. He wanted a larger 512GB and bought one. Gave it to me and I cloned the drive using AOMEI. Everything went fine and completed, but when I installed the 512GB drive it will not boot. The Lenovo screen appears then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left cornet and that's all it does. ...

Win7 sleep problem

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I am helping a friend that has a Toshiba laptop. It has been sitting for a few years. She says that when she logs on the laptop turns off. I have tried a repair disc (no help). I seems that all you have to do is power the device on and it will shut off in about 45 sec t6 a minute. In the logs that I was able to find about 2 years ago there was an update. I have pulled the hard drive out and am...

Exactly which Updates KB...... are responsible for Spectre & Meltdown?

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Does someone know and tell me the list of Win 7 Updates KB...... which are responsible for fixing Spectre & Meltdown (from the Windows side (not by BIOS-fimware updates))? May be there is a comprehnsive list published in Internet? Thank you Peter

Is it possible to install Windows 7 on a Microsoft Surfacebook?

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I 've searched and it' s non conclusive. Do you really need the CMS/Legacy feature in the BIOS to boot the installation files?

Key not found in Produkey but is in WGADiag

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Hello - I'm getting different results from two tools. Produkey can't find it: Attachment 405336 (https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/installation-setup/405336-key-not-found-produkey-but-wgadiag-rita-produkey.jpg) & and the MS tool WGADiag can: Attachment 405337 (https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/installation-setup/405337-key-not-found-produkey-but-wgadiag-rita-mgadiag.jpg)

OMG just jacked up Win 7 install, constant loop, what to do?

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I got a Dell Studio 1555 (Windows Vista) laptop from a friend 1. I went to install my Windows 7 Ultimate ISO. In the partition section I deleted a couple and when I went to install it stated "BOOTMGR" missing

win 7 pro x64 Clean/Install Help(Reinstall on SSD)

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I currently have Win7ProX64 installed on a Samsung 850-250 (Model Mz 75E20) SSD. This installation was done12-16-15. I would like to do a Clean/Install of Win7x64Pro on this same SSD but, I'm not clear on how to do this. It's my first time to do this using a SSD. In this past when doing this on the old platter HDD I would run the "Write Zeros" Utility to ensure all data was wiped.(this was...

Win 7 sp1 installation issue

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Hello, I just reinstalled windows 7 home after installing a new hdd, I installed sp1 via windows update but now have a rather strange issue, if I go to windows update and look at updates it shows that it is installed, but if I then go to uninstall an update it is not shown in that list, also it is not shown if I look at computer properties, so I also cannot uninstall it to try reinstalling...

New ISO using wim

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I there a simple tutorial that shows the most basic things you need to do using install.wim and such to create an individualized win7?

\EFI\BOOT\BCD Error While Booting On Windows 7 USB Installation

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Hi, i'm new here. I am trying to install windows 7 on UEFI but i am getting an \EFI\BOOT\BCD Error while i boot to the USB, some times i boots, but it gets stuck at Starting Windows, some time instead, i get this error. Is There A Way To Fix This?

Help to Make a Dual Boot System

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Hello, I need Help in making Dual Boot System. I already have system with Windows 10 , Now i want to install windows 7 in same Laptop. When i try to install windows in other Partition following error occured . "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" . So please help me resolve this issue.

Should product key be on motherboard?

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Just bought a used laptop which originally had xp on and was upgraded to Windows 7 by the seller. There is no windows 7 disk with the laptop. Anyway virus scanned it, and ran show key to get the product key. It's an OEM copy of Windows 7 professional but show key says the key is not on the motherboard. I had intended to do a clean install using the product key - but now just wondering if...

Repair Install

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I just want to make sure before I do my repair install. Do I have to D/L all the updates afterward?

Novice question on DISM++

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---Quote (Originally by SIW2)--- Yes. You will also need to put your windows product key in again. The easiest way is to use dism++. Click Toolkit in the left pane, then select activation backup.Click backup. After the repair install has completed,run dism++ again. Select toolkit, click activation backup.Click restore. .... Direct download dism++...

HP Notebook 15-ay009dx refusing to boot from Windows 7 install media

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So, for starters, I'll give a slight description of the situation I'm going thru right now. The current setup I have is the computer running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS after converting from Windows 10 after the computer had a whole meltdown. No hardware damage or anything was detected but after that I gave up on Windows. Now, with the stuff that I do, I kinda have to use Windows. I am definitely not going...

Up to date (Oct 2018) guide to fresh Windows 7 install?

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I am ready to do a fresh Windows 7 install on my older Dell laptop (I'm assuming I can do this from the repair screens using F8 at reboot). I've found a few older threads that specify a sequence of steps, but they are a few years old and wonder if there is an update to the process to speed up all the updates... Thanks in advance. John

Solved Windows 7 installation error: 'The computer restarted unexpectedly...'

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_'Windows Installation cannot proceed' - error during windows 7 installation._ Everything was going very well indeed with my 'Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit SP1' installation until: After the first reboot during the installation process, during the 'setup is starting services' screen, everything seems to suddenly 'crash', and an error message pops up saying: *'The computer restarted...

How can I make a portable Win 7

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I have a preinstalled Windows 7 32 bit on my Laptop. I do not have a CD or DVD drive. I do not have an ISO image for installation and can not download one from Microsoft and can not get it from VAIO support even though I have a valid key and all other info. Also I dont want to buy a new Win 7. 1) Is it possible to create an installation "disk" (iso file)

Permissions on old SSD C: Drive - cannot copy files to new C: drive

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I have taken a SSD drive out of my old computer (had windows 7Pro OS on it). I have put it in a USB case and would like to use it as an extra drive on my new windows 7Pro box. I cannot copy my personal files from it because of Permissions. I've searched here in the forum but while I understand a bit about permissions, I don't understand how to fix this drive so I can use it. Is there...

"Windows Installer Service Access" Error 0xc06d007e

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Hi, As a tech neophyte idiot who is quite literally becoming a lunatic over error messages that prevent every attempt to install apps in .msi formats. I've done all I know, from CMD com admin rearm (hit my limit of 5 long ago), "/ unregister" and System Restore back to before this issue developed - all for naught :cry: *NOTE:* (Upgraded Win Vista OEM to 7 PRO (SP1) a few years ago from ISO...
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