Help please - Windows 7 Home Premium clean install

ElvisChrist6

Hello, just here to ask if anyone in the Central Dublin area would be able to help me - I have to do a complete reinstallation of Windows 7, due to a fatal error. Does anyone have the disk for Windows 7 that I could borrow for a day please? I have the product key, but I never received a recovery disk. I wouldn't ask it of anyone usually, but it is important I get the computer back up and running in the next week. Thanks for reading!

Obviously, also, I would give you my number etc to assure you you will receive the disk as it was given!

yoyo

You can download the Windows 7 DVD for reinstalling here: http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/14-windows-7-direct-download-links
Just burn the image to a blank DVD and reinstall using your product key.
Make sure to pick the correct language and also architecture (32 or 64 bit) for your OS

Nick

tadcan

If you have a laptop, check if it comes with a recovery partition aka factory reset on the harddrive. When it boots up check the options on the boot screen, for example on a Dell you would press the F8 key. Then just follow the instructions. This will also wipe all of your files on the machine.

ElvisChrist6

yoyo wrote: »

You can download the Windows 7 DVD for reinstalling here: http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/14-windows-7-direct-download-links
Just burn the image to a blank DVD and reinstall using your product key.
Make sure to pick the correct language and also architecture (32 or 64 bit) for your OS

Nick

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it's the means for doing that that is the problem. But I'll try to find a way!

tadcan wrote: »

If you have a laptop, check if it comes with a recovery partition aka factory reset on the harddrive. When it boots up check the options on the boot screen, for example on a Dell you would press the F8 key. Then just follow the instructions. This will also wipe all of your files on the machine.

It's not a laptop, but did have a recovery partition - however, it got me caught in an infinite restart loop due to some issue in there, so I have to boot it from disk/USB! Thanks for the reply!

johnnybmac

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

It's not a laptop, but did have a recovery partition - however, it got me caught in an infinite restart loop due to some issue in there, so I have to boot it from disk/USB! Thanks for the reply!

Corruption on the recovery partition could also point to possible damage to the HDD, you might also need to replace your Hard Drive...

tadcan

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

...however, it got me caught in an infinite restart loop due to some issue in there, so I have to boot it from disk/USB! Thanks for the reply!

In that case spinrite maybe of help. This iso will check each sector of the hard drive, recover data from bad sectors to a good one and make the hard drive boot. Ignore the basic website, the software is effective in fixing errors. You will still need to burn the iso to a disk or run from a usb key.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Gadgetman496

tadcan wrote: »

In that case spinrite maybe of help. This iso will check each sector of the hard drive, recover data from bad sectors to a good one and make the hard drive boot. Ignore the basic website, the software is effective in fixing errors. You will still need to burn the iso to a disk or run from a usb key.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Wow! Spinrite... There's a name I haven't heard in years. The current v6 was released back in maybe like 2008 or so I think. Does it still have a purpose?

braddun

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/f/download-windows-7.htm

tadcan

gadgetman496 wrote: »

Wow! Spinrite... There's a name I haven't heard in years. The current v6 was released back in maybe like 2008 or so I think. Does it still have a purpose?

Well yes, if the OP's spinning disk hard drive is stuck in a boot loop, then that is Spinrites job to fix. Granted its cost and the cost of a new HD may mean the OP prefers to do that, but its a useful tool to have.

Apparently it is being upgraded to work with SSDs soon and be independent of the PC's Bios.

shanec1928

I'd only use spinrite as a very last resort. Or if the data on the drive was worthless.

ElvisChrist6

Thank you all very much, got my hands on a USB I could make bootable and I'm going to try that first, but then should that not work (probably won't), I'm going to get into these suggestions! Thanks!