Need to reinstall win 7 but how?

The OEM ID & key

laptop has some problems with the updates and it seems a corruption.

I would like to reinstall win 7, but as I got the used laptop it came with nothing.

does not understand why microsoft makes it so difficult to obtain support - we have little choice but to use the product that come installed!

Last night, I continued to try to solve this problem and has managed to create a diskette using the ISO file downloaded from Digital River, who has installed and working now what appears to be a clean / new Win 7 using my activation code.

So everything be fine it's fixed!

Thanks for all the answers.

Steve

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