Can I install OEM windows 7 pro license on a preinstalled computer comes with windows vista after formatting the hard drive

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• Cannot install a version upgrade of Windows Vista after changing the hard drive.

  Original title: my computer gives me a warning... saying backup.

  My hard drive is bad.  I can feel it.

  Keep the system lock up and rebooting message says cable and BAD status.

  I took the hard drive... put in a new one... and now it says I can't install vista.

  I have the version upgrade.

  I put XP on this drive and upgrade again.  Y at - it something I can do.

  I want to just reinstall windows vista on a new drive.  How can I accomplish this.

  The bad hard drive still works and is accessible it is not stable and keeps locking up.

  The full version of XP that I have is out of licenses.  Help Help

  Hi Rob,

  You must install first Windows XP and upgrade to Windows Vista.

  If you have a genuine copy of Windows XP, after you install Windows XP you can contact support for Microsoft's Activation to activate the copy of Windows XP.

  For more information, you can consult the following articles:

  Upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista

  How to activate Windows XP

• Activation of Windows Vista after replacing the hard drive

  I'm unable to activate windows after having my hard drive replaced. The portable station to my Windows Vista Home installed school, when my computer was originally Windows Vista Business. When I try to use Windows Activation, all options tells me that my product key is not valid for Windows Vista Home Edition. However, the steps to find a phone number to call for the activation require me to enter a product key, and then find the phone number from there. Because I can not clear the checkpoint, I can activate Windows or find a phone number to call. My computer has been purchased through my school, so I don't have a Windows Vista Business install disc, it automatically installs through the recovery disks. I could back up everything and then use the recovery disks, but I was wondering if there was another way to use the product key, I have, or to communicate with Windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  Hello

  the product key you have is for Vista Business, not the House

  without a product key for home which must be provided by your school or purchased by you (no longer sold) will not be activated

  as you bought the computer and operating through your school system, these are the people to talk about this

  and if they provided you with recovery disks when you bought originally, they are used to boot from to reinstall the original operating system

• Reinstall Windows 7 after formatting the HARD drive

  I had a laptop Lenovo with a preactivated Windows and I have a product key at the bottom of my laptop computer that reads the Windows 7 Pro OA in India. Recently, my HARD drive crashed and I had to replace it. I want to reinstall my Windows genuine 7 with available with me product key. How can I tell what version of Windows 7 was? for example, home premium, professional etc... and how can I do to download the copy of windows 7?

  Hello Bogdan,

  Welcome to the Microsoft community forums. Let me help you with your concern.

  Since you are using computer OEM (Lenovo). I suggest you to contact Lenovo support to clean install Windows 7. OEM keys work with the OEM CD.  It works with a generic "unbranded" CD OEM and not a retail CD.

  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/SelectProduct

  OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer, which you can generally consider this term as meaning 'PC maker' or, specifically in this case, "System Integrator." And in light of this, you can assume that the Windows 7 OEM packaging is so inaccessible you as a person.

  Please see the categories below to get answers to frequently asked questions about licensing system builder OEM.
  http://www.Microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/licensing_faq.aspx

  See these links in support of Lenovo. The following instructions explain how to install Microsoft Windows 7 on a computer with a blank hard drive or a hard drive that is going to be wiped clean during the installation process. (All existing files will be deleted.)

  Clean install of Windows 7

  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht082376

  http://support.Lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht082396

  Hope this information helps. If you need help with Windows, let us know and will be happy to help you.

• Unable to activate Windows Vista after upgrading the hard drive.

  install on HD replacement

  HD crashed.  Bought the new HD 2 t.  installed Vista with system recovery disks.  Operating system will not work.  What should I do?

  Unfortnunately - since it is a process of recovery provided OEM - only help you can really get is OEM themselves.

  Windows XP can have trouble with the size of the player (depending on the installation media level of service pack that you use) or controller drivers.

  Are you sure it was your hard drive crashed and nothing else has been damaged?  Could be a bad controller, bad memory even a poor diet.

• How can I reinstall windows 7 after replacing the hard drive?

  How can I reinstall windows 7 after replacing the hard drive? do I have to call microsoft or I can retrieve it somehow to the old hard drive?

  Well, that certainly puts a different point of view on this subject.

  There are data recovery services that can recover data from disks that have suffered from various types of failures. However, they are quite expensive. Unless the data is particularly useful, it is generally not useful.

  If your Windows 7 is an OEM version, installed on the computer when you bought it, the manufacturer could have a recovery disk on sale. If it was a retail copy and you always have the appropriate product/serial number, you can get a DVD of their team of parts replacement.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326246

  Tom Ferguson

• Install Windows 8 automatically formats the hard drive? If this isn't the case, I should format it FAT or NTFS drive before installing Win/8?

  Install Windows 8 automatically formats the hard drive?  If this isn't the case, I should format it FAT or NTFS drive before installing Win/8?

  No, this isn't format the hard drive, what's done is put your existing version of Windows in a folder called "windows.old", it indeed erases old files of version and folders, leaving free space on the existing partition "NTFS" (formerly ocupied by your previous version of windows) in which is installed Windows 8.

  And "NTFS" is the only file system that supports Windows 8.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Reinstall XP Pro upgrade after formatting the hard drive, the invalid product key

  I'm going through a gateway with xp adding purched proessional xp home. The hard drive has been formatted before the upgrade.  When I get the xp professional product key I get an error message indicating the product key is not valid.  The product key, as I enter corresponds to the product key in the business directory to the i386/unatended.txt xp CD.

  Thank you

  Steve

  * original title - family xp to xp pro upgrade *.

  Hi SteveConley,

  1. have you fully formatted the hard drive?

  2. what type of Windows XP Professional CD? It of an upgrade or clean installation CD?

  As you have formatted the hard disk, you can perform a clean install will impose you an operating system available on the computer to perform an installation upgrade.

  You cannot use the upgrade product key to perform a clean installation.

• Can I install unused Windows 7 on my new hard drive with Windows 8?

  SO to make a long story short I let my friend borrow a laptop computer and in some SORT he wiped the BONE. I have a HP Pavilion g7 and it is running windows 8. I called HP and after 45 minutes they told me they could send me a new hard drive and a 8 windows recovery disk. I already have an unused copy of windows 7. My question is can I install windows 7 on it and forget just about 8. (Yes, I'm one of those people) but it's so much easier for me to use. but theoretically, since I do not have an operating system on the hard drive I should be able to right? Thanks in advance!

  Original title: Windows 8 for windows 7

  Check the HP website first to ensure Windows 7 drivers are available for this laptop model. So here, there should be no problem with installation of Windows 7.

  Like to do a clean install with Windows 7, please see the following instructions:

  Clean Install with an upgrade Version Windows 7 - Windows 7 help Forum

• ThinkPad R60 cannot install Windows XP After erasing the HARD drive using the lenovo diagnostic utility

  WinXP pro Setup cannot find that any installed HARD disk so cannot install windows. Unfortunately after many attempts to use rescue and recovery to restore the factory settings and for some reason constantly default... After leaving another utility popped up giving me the opportunity to erase the HARD drive and so I did... After fact as well and all I had was a blank screen, no windows more or no matter what utility to reinstall windows, then I used my winxp pro installation CD, but the program installation would continue not after a certain point by saying that the installation did not find any HARD disk installed. followed by "ensure that any disk HARD r turned on and correctly connected, and that no matter what material associated drive configured correctly, this may involve running a manufacturer provided diagnostic or Setup program. Clearly it took me by surprise. What was supposed to be a cut to white erase and reinstall now me baffled and angry. Formats the HDD of the solution? If so why didn't not the usefulness of lenovo do... If not, what is the problem? Someone help pls

  Welcome to the forum!

  Go into the BIOS (F1 at startup), set the "compatible" SATA mode (NO AHCI), then press F10 to save and exit, and you should be all set.

  Good luck.

• Tecra S11 - How to reinstall Windows 7 after upgrading the HARD drive?

  How to reinstall Windows 7 pro after an upgrade to 500 GB HARD drive? How to access password protected data after relocation? How can I get a professional installation of Windows 7 DVD?

  (I do not installed new HARD drive yet, but I intend)

  Hey Buddy,

  You have created the Toshiba Recovery disk? Perfect!
  After Exchange of HARD drive, you need this you to install Windows 7 disc. The Toshiba Recovery disk contains an image of the factory settings, which means that you will have the factory settings on the new HARD drive after the use of the disc. You must boot from it and follow the instructions on the screen.

  > How to access password protected data after relocation?
  It would be interesting to know what data you mean exactly.
  Before you reinstall Windows, you must back up all data on a disk for example external HARD.

• How to recover the Windows operating system to factory settings after formatting the hard drive?

  * Original title: lost the original os pack

  I formatted my hard drive due to virus attack. so my original os is also lost in formatting.now im using, with windows 8 form, a service on the local computer, it is possible to recover my system to the scene when I bought it.

  Monday, December 21, 2015 11:13:36 + 0000, vishwanathragunath [Insider]
  wrote:

  I formatted my hard drive due to virus attack.

  Why? It is almost never necessary. A good anti-virus program can almost
  always remove the infection. And often leads to problems with formatting
  as you have discovered. Even if you have no problems, it creates a lot
  work for you.

  so my original os is also lost in formatting.now im using, with windows 8 form, a service on the local computer, it is possible to recover my system to the scene when I bought it.

  If you have or can get a DVD installation or a recovery partition,
  Yes. Otherwise, no.

• How to reinstall the upgrade of Windows 7 after replacing the hard drive

  I have a few problems and decided after many hours of nowhere to replace my hard drive, I am running Win7 installed via an upgrade disk, because it doesn't seem to be a startup disk (I want to run repair to try to recover the missing files / corrupted etc.) what I need to install Vista first and then use the upgrade disk?

  There are likely to be problems with activation etc as in the past, that a new hard drive has been regarded as the same license is installed on a different machine?

  * original title - hard drive replacement, Q on installation of Windows

  Thanks for both answers, but as I could not reinstall Vista due to the lack of drive & key - I put my system together myself have so do not the sticker supplied with the systems, pre-built, I moved twice since the departure of Vista installation, the disk may or may not be somewhere in this House.

  My solution was to take the opportunity to upgrade my CPU and add that extra RAM so bought a win7 disc at the same time (which I'll keep somewhere safe). Yes, I've probably lost money by doing it this way, but it's my money to waste.

  The end result is that the PC works well which is what matters in the end for me.

  Thanks again for the responses.

• Reinstalling windows xp After erasing the hard drive

  I want to sell my old Dell Dimension 3000.  I want to completely erase the computer before doing this for security reasons.  No Windows CD not supplied with the computer when buying in 2005.  I think it would be easier to sell the computer if Windows was installed, but do not know how to recover Windows on the computer after erasing.  So if I erase the HD what would be my best option to get Windows on it:

  What I have to buy Windows XP?

  Is it possible to download Windows from Dell on CDs for free because they CD did not come with the system?

  Or other suggestions to divest itself of all data without erasing the HD?

  Thank you.

  If you live in the United States, you can ask the Dell XP by completing this form. Dell peut charge you for the disk.

  Ron

• Where can I get the Toshiba Tecra A9 for tools after formatting the HARD drive?

  Hello.
  I bought a laptop Tecra A9 with Vista Business. I would format because there are a lot of tools and programs on it the notebook already that I didn't need, and it's very slow.

  There is a "hidden partition", but if I use it to recover it installs all tools and software.
  Fortunately, there was a DVD of Vista Business in the area.
  So I would use that one.

  Now my question: some of the tools (Toshiba HDD protection, Fingerprint-Software) seem useful and I would like to reinstall as soon as he runs again. Where can I download them? I only found the drivers on the Toshiba site.

  Thank you very much!

  Hello

  > Fortunately, there was a DVD of Vista Business in the area. So I would use that one.

  It's very strange because I know Toshiba laptops are supplied only with the Toshiba Recovery CD and not an original CD of Microsoft Vista.
  If you want to use this recovery CD, you will get the same OS preinstalled with all the drivers and tools such as at the beginning.

  In my opinion, you should remove all simply not necessary tools and operating system utilities and don t install the OS again!
  For registry cleaning, I recommend using the freeware program called CCleaner!

  Good bye