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• HP Envy 17: Clean install Windows 10 without upgrade.

  Hello

  First of all, I am very happy with my new HP laptop first, it's amazing!

  Now my problem. The laptop came with 8.1 Windows preinstalled with a free upgrade to Windows 10, however, I want to do a clean install Windows 10 without going through the process of upgrading (or would defy a 'clean' install), without additional software (I have already downloaded all the drivers and software from HP Web site) and I wanted to make the installation of the driver/software myself.

  Now, I had the key OEM with software, however...

  I read several threads related to this problem, the recommended steps were required to use the creator of media, but that won't install it Windows 8.1? I know that I coud after upgrade, but I wanted to avoid this step

  In any case to create support for Windows 10? If I clean install 10 Windows with a retail key, I'll lose the built in recovery?

  Thank you very much for your kind attention,

  Best regards

  Francisco

  To answer your questions:

  (1) MS media creation tool: Activation in Windows 10 - Windows help offers several options: to upgrade this PC now, create installation media (download the ISO file), create an installation (DVD or USB) media.  Choose the option that suits you - understand that upgrading PC, this option does NOT create an ISO file or installation media.

  (2) lose the built-in recovery.  IF you ask on the resumption of Win8x HP - then Yes.  That no longer works after upgrade Win10.

  (3) retail vs upgrade and recovery: Version does not matter, you will lose HP Win8x recovery without worrying.

  (4) retail key - you get ONLY a touch of detail if you buy a copy at Win10 retail.  The version proposed for the free update does not product keys for activation.  You MUST install a version upgrade on top of an existing installation of Win7/8/8.1 so that it will activate.  If you install directly from media Win10 Upgrade, starting from the media and did an install clean, not only will win 10 then NOT activate, right now, it will NEVER activate.  MS talking about providing an option IN THE FUTURE, to allow people to enter a Win7/8/8.1 existing product key - but this feature is not present today.

• Can I switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 by installing Windows 7 without uninstalling XP?

  Original title: improvement of the operating system.

  Can I switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 by installing Windows 7 without uninstalling XP?

  Yes, and in fact you must do in order to qualify for the upgrade price.  You must realize, however, this update of XP to 7 involves a "custom installation" - that is, you must save your data first (on external support) and to reinstall all your applications after that Win 7 is running.

  Under certain circumstances, installing Windows 7 might create a windows.old file, but it's not clear to me what is stored in memory in the transition from XP to 7. you will certainly be able to run one of your older applications without having to reinstall them.  See, for example, http://www.chron.com/business/silverman/article/Going-from-Windows-XP-to-Windows-7-It-s-not-1609463.php

• I can install Windows 7 without initially providing the product key?

  Peut I install Windows 7 without initially provide the product key during installation?  I'd rather go once the installation is finished, I just have to copy and paste it in the email like that.

  Hello

  Yes, you can try a free key of Windows 7 Installation. But be sure that you enter the product key to activate Windows wihtin 30 days grace period. Once the 30 days grace period end your system will go in any safe and you may need to reinstall the copy again.

  Unlike Windows Vista, if you si vous achetez buy Windows 7 DVD you get specified edition disk and installation you will not get an option to select the edition. Almost to the last step of the Installation, you will get the opportunity to enter the product key that you can jump and try to enter the product at the time of the Activation key.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-CA/w7itproinstall/thread/7d72d093-Eee7-40F4-9550-cbda71b2fcdd

  Thank you
  Hamidou ndiaye

• Problems of Jet 7 HP recovery after installing Windows 10 TP

  Hi all

  A month ago I bought the HP Jet 7. Soon after receiving it, I installed Windows 10 TP, without first create and save an Image of the system to an external drive recovery. While playing with Windows 10 TP, suddenly the touch screen doesn't work anymore, as well as WLAN. The SD card is not recognized eiter (and I can't boot from it). I now can with Windows only when you attach an external USB keyboard. I can't get into the BIOS (power-Volume-down).

  I tried to go back to Windows 8.1, so far without success. I tried the regular Windows recovery mechanisms - all fail. When booting from a USB 2.0 with 8.1 32-bit of Windows Installer source attached to a USB hub powered by bus, at least, I'm able to boot, and I see that your partition 4 is a recovery partition. Yet, when you mount the partition (via DISKPART) to check for recovering images in the 'Images of Windows' folder I only get "access denied".

  Does anyone have tips on how to do to get my stream of HP 7?

  Thanks for reading!

  / Maurice

  Hi all

  After you remove all of the partitions and create the recommended UEFI/GPT partition , I was finally able to install Windows USB 8.1. I guess the reason for all the facilities prior to failure were remnants of W10 Technical Preview (for example, recovery or similar tools). So in short: I had to wipe the hard drive to a successful downgrade.

  -Maurice

• How to install Windows 7 WITHOUT EFI

  First of all, the question full (long) story below.

  I wish to get a complete picture of a Windows 7 operating system that I backed up on my other server. But I get the error unable to restore a system image on a computer with a different firmware "Windows. "The System Image has been created by a computer using the BIOS and this computer uses EFI.

  The image has certainly taken this machine - the firmware has not changed!

  What should I do to restore the image?

  Background story...

  I bought a new laptop HP 255, by-installed with Windows 7 without OS install disks (I won't EVER stupid enough to do it again!).

  I took a complete picture of the systems, as suggested by while I was well saved.

  However, my machine has corrupted its operating systems with a few weeks. Recovery boot CD does not work (wouldn't boot). So in desperation, and because time was short I went out and bought another copy legitimate DVD of Windows 7 with a license key (so now I have 2 copies of legitimate operating system!).

  I installed the new copy of Windows 7, but it was terrible, because many pilots had disappeared. Especially the missing drivers were not available on the site of HP support for this machine.

  So, I created a new new version of Windows recovery disk and tried to restore using that. New boot disk loads ok, I can find the old image on my network (after loading some network drivers). But I will not install the image - which gives the above error message.

  I tried to delete the EFI partition from disk (using GPARTED to reformat this partition). Who killed the Windows 7 on the machine - but always gives the same error message when I try to recreate the image on the machine.

  I tried to go into the BIOS settings... HP 255 has a "legacy Mode" - which I activated, but it makes no difference at all!

  I think the kind of solutions, I'm looking for might be:

  1. There is a great way of disabling EFI on my 255 so that it resembles a machine BIOS inherited, or

  2. This EFI is plugged into my new start-up recovery disk - and there is a way to create a recovery disk that doesn't use EFI

  It took me about 2 weeks until now, and I'm at the point just junking this machine and Ubuntu installation!

  Hi Don,

  I can certainly understand your concern and appreciate your efforts. As you mentioned you have made changes in the BIOS, you must contact the manufacturer to solve this problem (as mentioned by the previous Support Engineer).

  You can also try referring to the Microsoft community links below:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-windows_install/Win7-cannot-be-installed-to-this-disk-selected/d4040fec-567f-47ad-AFC9-91f223219898

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-windows_install/Windows-7-the-selected-disk-has-an-MBR-partition/5aee7be1-3038-4290-A283-75806dc1be1f?page=1

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-system/system-image-restore-fails-because-of-efibios/f9ddf5ac-47f1-4ef7-A5ef-b3d532b13e13

  I hope this helps.

• Install Windows 7 without Bootcamp (on el Capitan)

  I have a Windows 7 installation disc, but I can't install it with Bootcamp because Apple does not support Windows 7 more. Anyone know how to install it without using Bootcamp?

  What year/model is your iMac?

  W7 is supported on models before 2015 Macs. Please see the list and the procedure to install Windows 7 and previous versions on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support .

• NB100 - how to install Windows 7 without CD player

  Hello. I was wondering if anyone knows how to install Windows 7 Pentecost on a CD player.

  I have an external HARD drive.
  Is - this posibel to make an image on this one to boot from?

  Hmm, I think that's not possible.
  I know that it was possible to install Win XP without the disc.
  You simply copied the folder integer i386 to the HARD disk and executed to the Winnt. EXE

  I have no experience with Win 7 but I also didn t find details that something like that would not be possible so I guess that's not possible

• I have a copy of Windows 7, I want to install but I don't have my Windows XP disc. Can I install Windows 7 without the Windows XP disk?

  Hi, my desktop has XP pro top. I lost the installation disc. I have a premium version of W7 (32 bit) I would like to install. Can I do this without the disc XP pro?

  original title: install Windows 7

  When upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7, you must perform a custom (clean) installation because there is no real upgrade path. Perhaps the links below will help:

  Clean install Windows 7 with upgrade media
   http://www.winsupersite.com/article/Win7/clean-install-Windows-7-with-upgrade-media

  Clean-install Windows 7 from upgrade disc
   http://WindowsSecrets.com/top-story/clean-install-Windows-7-from-the-upgrade-disc/

  Kind regards

• format and install windows xp without cd rom drive

  I want to format my laptop and install windows xp but I have not cd player rom. someone can tell me how to format and install without using a cd rom?

  Hi x zero90.

  I answered your post located in the link below. Please respond to this post.

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/XPInstall/thread/647034ad-1ffa-4031-9b16-0696fcb29bc9

  Thank you!
  Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• How to install Windows 8 without a product key?

  Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to wipe my hard drive including Windows 8.

  I don't physically have the product key that Windows 8 has come pre-installed. If I am not mistaken, the product key is embedded in the BIOS.

  So, my question is this...

  How do I install Windows 8 and use my old product key?

  Monday, June 8, 2015 16:23:09 + 0000, GARNER2015 wrote:

  Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to wipe my hard drive including Windows 8.

  I don't physically have the product key that Windows 8 has come pre-installed. If I am not mistaken, the product key is embedded in the BIOS.

  You are right.

  So, my question is this...

  How do I install Windows 8 and use my old product key?

  You follow the manufacturer's instructions for use the recovery partition
  on your hard drive. But if you completely erased the hard disk drive, which
  partition disappeared, and you're out of luck. Contact the manufacturer.

• I installed windows 8 (without knowing he is originally from the United Kingdom, how can change for a local edition

  Without knowing it, I installed windows 8 (United Kingdom edition) I live in Australia and you want to switch to a local edition, what should I do?

  Hello Theo Schaaf,

  You can try this: type in the Start to the screen location. On the right side, select settings, then on the left side select Edit location settings. Change your place of residence in Australia. Select the in the lower right corner, and then click OK.

• Portege 2000 - how to install Windows XP without ODD and FDD?

  I have this Toshiba Portege 2000 old OS crashed a few days ago. This laptop is not an optical drive and a floppy drive.

  The first thing is mind is to purchase an external optical drive which I did, but it does not seem to boot from it. I have trouble to install Windows XP but nothing helped.
  Can you guys please help me?

  The last option I have in mind would be to install Windows XP on a network. The portege 2000 is able to boot from PXE, the thing is that I don't know how to do it! Can someone tell me how to boot from PXE?

  Thank you very much.

  I don't know Mr. but as far as I know if copy you the Windows XP CD to HARD disk and then you start from external floppy drive (it should work) you can start the installation.
  Copy the XP CD to your HARD drive with a drive enclosure external DRIVE on another computer, create a boot floppy XP and start from it.
  Go to the I386 folder and start the WINNT. EXE

  Or you use the CD/DVD drive from another computer with the netbootdisk. I found this with Google:
  http://netbootdisk.com/

• can I re - install Windows XP without losing everything on the drive?

  My system restore stop working and I have tried almost everything with no luck, now, I think to reinstall my Windows XP from the original disk, I had when I bought this computer, I know I'll lose all the windows "updates" if I do this, but I'll also lose all of my other files or programs on this drive?

  Hello LarryStevens,

  You could do an installation repair of XP as opposed to a 'clean install' (wipe everything).

  How to perform a repair XP installation.

  http://www.ehow.com/how_5467862_perform-repair-install-Windows-XP.html

  Hope it will be useful.

• How to install Windows 7 without deleting the files?

  I want to configure my pc... If I... custom (advanced) of choice for installation it removes my image of video files, alll my d etc, data of the e drive... I want to configure windows delet without my E, D data drive.

  2. I saw more player for the format... which I choos what c drive, or system daynamic.

  See the instructions how to perform a custom installation. Don't choose any options such as format or delete.

  How to: perform a customized Windows installation

  Refer to Windows 7.