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  • 07-09-2012 12:19pm
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    Ronnie Beck
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    Hi,

    At the beginning of the summer I installed XP onto the laptop to run a program. This copied over the WIN 7 boot file and as a result it wouldn't start up. It was just before my exams and in a panic I installed a pirate win 7.

    It works fine but I get loads of annoying counterfeit messages. The laptop is only two years old but I never got a windows CD with it(is this normal) and as a result couldn't repair the boot file or reinstall my genuine windows.

    Will microsoft send me out a CD? or should I just download a better pirate copy.

    Thanks in advance.


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    yoyo
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    Moved to Windows.
    You best bet is to download Windows 7 here for the version applicable to your license. Then activate it using the serial underneath the machine. You may need to activate via phone.

    Nick

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    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    It's not unusual for new laptops to come without a Windows disc these days, more often than not you get a recovery partition and/or a utility for creating rescue media.

    So long as you've got a Windows 7 Certificate of Authenticity on the underside of your machine you've got a valid licence for the laptop. As yoyo suggested, the best thing to do is download the legitimate Windows 7 ISO image from the link, burn that to a DVD and do a reinstallation.

    I'd advise a clean reinstall rather than an upgrade since there's no way of knowing what sort of potential nasties might be lingering in the pirate version you'd installed previously.


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    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    Hi all,

    I am having difficulty downloading the iso. The first attempt from the above link seemed to work. I went out and bought some DVD's. When I went to burn the disk I couldn't find the file anywhere. Searched the whole computer. No sign of it.:confused:

    I have tried to download it 4/5 times since but keep getting the error message
    C:\Users\INTERS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\_7rX+RDm.iso.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

    Try again later, or contact the server administrator.

    It wont let me resume the download.

    I tried a different download another file last night. SP1 this time but got the same message about 2.5 gigs into it.(I only have a 10 gb/month download limit)

    Its Win 7 home premium x64 I had originally. I have x36 ultimate SP1 on it at moment.

    Any advice? (I only have a 10 gb download limit)


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    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    got this one to download

    http://www.w7forums.com/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads-t12325.html

    hopefully it works...


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