E330 - E530 Win7 key / activation

Hello

On the old E520 series you had your windows key 7 under the battery, which allowed for easy relocation.

The key worked even though you would be reinstall from an OEM DVD which is not the case for other brands (I know)

I recently put hands on a new E330, preloaded with windows7 pro & set at level of Windows 8 discs.

I have nothing positive to say about windows8, so I'm not going there.

But I don't want to reinstall Windows 7 on SSD I hang out alternatives.

Let's start first of all, I created a full disc image with windows Backup to make sure that I had a full image without having to re-do my basic installation.

Things, I tried so FAS:

-Connect the SSD drive and reinstall from DVD-> can't activate windows (I have no phone option and the serial number I extracted to the default installation does not work)

running 'SLUI.exe 4' does not give me an option by phone either

-copy the image to the SSD drive-> image is too large and lacks of enough space.

-restore the image of the DVD 'create the resumption of the plant' suite on the SSD-> not enough space of lenovo.

So the only option I see would be to remove the recovery partition Q.

Resize the C partition, until it fits on the SSD

load the new, smaller image (without recovery partition) on the SSD

resize the partition C on the SSD to make use of all the space on the SSD drive

I remember that one of the attempt to clean reinstall gave me an option by phone (I think I installed win7 without entering a serial number during the installation) but after you call the phone number & entering all numbers, he asked my, if I wanted to activate office for mac...

I'm still trying a few things, but I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestions.

I have to start using my laptop the week next, but by the looks of it, I have remove Q: and just resize C: up to what fits on the SSD

If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to let me know

Signed, Sven

Edit: I also noticed the same thing on an E530 of a colleague. so I guess this is true for all laptops Lenovo from windows 8 was released?

MDSven wrote:

-restore the image of the DVD 'create the resumption of the plant' suite on the SSD-> not enough space of lenovo.

Did you actually create the recovery disks and then try to recover the Virgin SSD with them?  As far as I KNOW, it should work as first the recovery partition will be created and then the installation of this partition.

Another option would be to be able to fix the original external drive, with the SSD inserted as primary and then clone using a spare drive Acronis and resize the C: partition, leaving the recovery with its original size partition.  Once completed, you could then remove the recovery Windows partition, keeping the original disc as a provision for the worst-case scenario.

Edit; typo

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