I messed up! Need to install correct windows 7 Professional!

Good evening

If my computer started acting, being a bit computer I decided to do a new install of Windows 7 Professional. I followed a tutorial that I found over at PC world who directed me to download Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (thinking that it was the one I was running before - X 17-59186 file). I followed the instructions, everything went beautifully!... Well well somewhat... I got to where I had to enter my product key, but where it went horribly wrong.

Thinking I would save me some headaches, before we begin, I have copied down the product ID of system properties, I also used Magic Jelly Beans to extract my key CD and the product key before begin this process (the label of the product is quite worn on the bottom of my laptop, it has been around ", so I thought it was a bit of additional insurance and would allow me to save some problems due to not being able to read a few letters on the sticker).

So I'm going to enter the cd key and it says its invalid, I get the product key and the cd key that all tell me that they're wrong. So I jump ahead just to see if I could maybe enter it again in the system properties windows activation area. No dice. Then I re - check the magic jelly beans to connect only to realize that the file I installed was X 17-59186 and one on computer laptop X 15-39122. OK, so now that I think I can just google to find this copy of the installation ISO and create a usb one and viola installation, can I use my existing information and I'm good to go. No dice again, because nobody seems to have a digital copy of this one.

So now that I'm desperately looking for the installation disc, my computer has been cleaned with the new installation, and I have nowhere to really go but maybe buy a new copy of windows 7 (something I really don't want to do - when I already have a copy). What should I do?

Try to contact the manufacture of your PC and ask a set of "Recovery Media" which does not require the product key on the label (which I suppose is unreadable) to install and activate.

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

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