Need some pc experts advice windows related..

Okay.

I got a notebook with windows home premium 7 preinstalled and now I want to reinstall just to clean everything if you know what I mean.

I have a Valid product key!

Can I just semi pirate at the infamous bay to get the cd of windows 7 and install it with my key?

if I can will windows come after me and do some weird things to my system?

just want to know if its save to do.

by all means pm me with info or other methods.

I know im scratching the ''invisible piratewall'' but i am legit all I want is a clean install


thanks btw!:p

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Originally Posted by mister

Okay.

I got a notebook with windows home premium 7 preinstalled and now I want to reinstall just to clean everything if you know what I mean.

I have a Valid product key!

Can I just semi pirate at the infamous bay to get the cd of windows 7 and install it with my key?

if I can will windows come after me and do some weird things to my system?

just want to know if its save to do.

by all means pm me with info or other methods.

I know im scratching the ''invisible piratewall'' but i am legit all I want is a clean install


thanks btw!:p

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LEGAL Windows 7 Download Links (Just like Vista before!!!)

Read the thread CAREFULLY as if you don't back up your OEM Activation certificate then the key is useless for a clean install.

[lang=nl]sweet!

thanks for the link , I will post succes or failure later![/lang]

If you have a name brand laptop, usually you can do a key combo at startup to revert the system to like it was out of the box.
usually Combination of CTRL+F11 or similar. If you can put your model #, I can tell you for sure.

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Originally Posted by Zashule

If you have a name brand laptop, usually you can do a key combo at startup to revert the system to like it was out of the box.
usually Combination of CTRL+F11 or similar. If you can put your model #, I can tell you for sure.

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packard bell easy note LJ65.

According to my quick google search, that one came with recovery disks, not a recovery partition.

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Originally Posted by mister

Okay.

I got a notebook with windows home premium 7 preinstalled and now I want to reinstall just to clean everything if you know what I mean.

I have a Valid product key!

Can I just semi pirate at the infamous bay to get the cd of windows 7 and install it with my key?

if I can will windows come after me and do some weird things to my system?

just want to know if its save to do.

by all means pm me with info or other methods.

I know im scratching the ''invisible piratewall'' but i am legit all I want is a clean install


thanks btw!:p

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why would you want to install with your key?
theres activation apps that come packed inn with the releases, are very simple and it just works ;)
win 7 64 ultimate ftw ;)

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Originally Posted by chesh

According to my quick google search, that one came with recovery disks, not a recovery partition.

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dont have disks but in disk management there is a recovery partition , its 12gb is that it?

http://i56.tinypic.com/14w7y1s.png


UPDATE

found the recovery programm it was in my program files all the time....


thanks guyss

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Originally Posted by mister

dont have disks but in disk management there is a recovery partition , its 12gb is that it?

http://i56.tinypic.com/14w7y1s.png

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thats it, all laptops that ive seen and or desktops have this smaller partition for the recovery files, just incase you want or have to reinstall it, they used to hand out cds when you bought the thing, but now is just that.

The Official Windows 7 Repository

poke around here and other topics there and get all u need to know about getting win activated. :shhh:

retail disk + daz loader + block update KB971033 = all good for me, not sure about sp1 as i haven't looked into that yet. :D

EDIT

if the key u have is an OEM key, i believe u will have to use an OEM disk, not a retail disk, or the key wont take. Try daz loader :dance: