Windows 7 after reformatting

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• How to re-enable Windows 7 after reformatting the hard drive?

  After I reformatted my laptop hard drive and reinstalled windows 7, using the same product key that I used to activate my laptop when I saw, but couldn't activate it. The answer I get is that he doesn't seem to be a valid product key.  So, is there a way to reacitivate Windows 7?

  TIA

  Søren

  Have you tried to restart by phone?

  How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
   
  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
   
  (2) press the ENTER"" key.
   
  (3) select your "country" in the list.
   
  (4) choose the option "activate phone".
   
  (5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
   
  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
   
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• Unable to activate Windows 7 after reformat

  I have just be reformatted my hard disk down load vista home no problem. Updated anytime upgrade to windows 7 home no problem, I'm trying now high grade to windows 7 ultimate except the product key, and then begins to update then stops and says try again once I did without success. He also says to go to the windows website for advice. Can't find. any ideas any body. I'm abit of a loss with what I've done well in the past

  You do an Express of Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade to Ultimate?

  Why not just do a direct upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate? Or is it just a license upgrade Express?

  If its Anytime Upgrade, make sure that the Home Premium license is activated.

  Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade fails:

  If your getting the following: error: Windows Anytime Upgrade failed
  This problem may occur if Windows 7 SP1 was downloaded by Windows Update, but has not yet been installed.
  See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2660811

  = Other reasons and possible corrections.

  Windows Anytime Upgrade fails with the error:
  "every time that the upgrade has failed. Go online to solve the problem.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2658652

  If Anytime Upgrade still does not work:

  Shut down and restart your computer.

  Make sure that the Windows updates have been installed.

  Download the hotfix that contains a tool called CheckSUR, this tool will look at the package and the maintenance of records and difficulty any data corrupted, the tool is listed under kb947821 he can be found at the following link http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947821

  If Anytime Upgrade still does not work, turn off the user account control:

  1. go in user accounts in Control Panel

  2 change user account control settings

  3. pull the slider to the level as low as possible

  4. restart the PC

  5. pass by the "Anytime Upgrade" as usual

  Try the following:

  1 disable any security software before attempting to upgrade

  2. make sure that your computer is updated (devices and applications)

  3. disconnect all external devices before installing.

  4. check your hard disk for errors:

  Click Start

  Type: CMD, according to the results, right-click CMD

  Click on "Run as Administrator"

  At the command prompt, type: chkdsk /f /r

  When you restart your system, your computer will be scanned for errors and will try to correct them.

  1. click on start, type msconfig in the search box and press ENTER.

  User account control permission

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password, or click on continue.

  2. in the general tab, click Selective startup.

  3. under Selective startup, clear the check box load startup items.

  4. click on the Services tab, select the hide all Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable all.

  5. click on OK.

  6. When you are prompted, click on restart.

  7. after the computer starts, check if the problem is resolved.

  Also run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-7/Upgrade-Advisor.aspx

  Who should I contact if I have problems installing and / or activation of my product key card?

  Please contact to the: www.windows7.com/getkeysupport.

  If all above fails them, install Windows 7 Service Pack 1, and then try the Express Upgrade:

  Learn how to install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/learn-how-to-install-Windows-7-Service-Pack-1-SP1

  If your key is not valid and you will need to change the keys, you may need to Open regedit and remove first the ProductKey value in the following registry key:
   
  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsAnytimeUpgrade

• Unable to activate Windows 7 after reformatting (diskless)

  Hi, I have reformatted my laptop (Dell Inspiron m2030/m2050 I don't remember; (P) I can't activate as it has been activated through the installation... That means that I don't have a disk (I do, but the product key has been used on my brothers computer)... Can I get the key? Is it possible?

  If your computer came preloaded with Windows 7?

  How do you reinstall Windows 7 using recovery partition?

  Why did you use the product key on your computer of brothers?

  To uninstall the product key from your computer of brothers:

  Click Start, type: CMD'

  Right-click on CMD

  Click on run as administrator

  At the command prompt, type the following commands:

  slmgr.vbs - upk

  Wake your computer:

  Activate Windows 7 manually:
  1. click on start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4

  2. press enter on your keyboard

  3. Select your country.
  4. Select the telephone activation option and brace yourself for a real person.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• How to restore the original partition after reformatting accidentally installing windows 10

  See the problem below. I can not get a USB stick formatted with FAT to be recognized by bootcamp or to download the drivers to continue.

  The problem occurred after that my son wanted to re - install windows 7 after that that he has been upgraded to windows 10 and utilities disk to reformat the drive hard windows installed.

  

  OS X Terminal, you can post the output of

  diskutil list

• Windows Vista cannot find any networks after reformat

  Windows Vista cannot find any networks after reformatting. Help!

  Go to the website of the manufacturer of your computer/notebook > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > look for it last network adapters Vista drivers > download/install the.

  The computer you are using now if you have an Internet connection with the other > download / save drivers > copy them into Flash Drive > transfer / install on another computer/laptop.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How to get a Windows 8 version which I can boot my computer after reformatting?

  I bought my key online almost a year ago and used a friends disk to load this last time and as such have a copy me.

  I tried the option "refresh and reinstall Windows, but it gives me an error and says that some files are missing, my media will provide.
  I just reformat my computer, as he will terribly and unnecessarily slow, but I have no way to do it.
  On another note - my windows key, that I received by email will be valid if I were to try to use it again after reformatting?

  See:

  http://techingiteasy.WordPress.com/2013/02/14/how-to-obtain-64-bit-Installer-and-create-install-media-for-Windows-8/

• Help! R40 problems after reformatting

  I meet a lot of problems after reformatting the laptop using the IBM recovery tool that comes with windows xp. After installing the drivers and xp

  -I can't use the trackpoint (mouse) and I see no mouse pointer on my screen

  -the system detects any USB or flash drive

  -Problems of drivers even after installing the latest drivers ethernet network card and mouse. When I tried to install the latest drivers, he said: "the i/o operation was abandoned because of a thread exit or an application request.

  -Tried to install xp sp3 but I said the installation did not complete.

  -Cant even repair windows xp because he says "systemroot system32/ntdll.dll c0000221 unknown hard error".

  Well just solved the DIF. The edition of the ibm recovery software xp sucks. What I did was deleted all the data on the hard drive and install xp using my cd. Then, everything works perfectly.

• need to reinstall updates after reformat

  I have to go to the cumbersome process of reinstall all updates when I reformat the hard drive of my laptop?

  Lenovo has created three partitions on the hard drive installed. The smallest drive C contains Windows and software pre-installed. And I was told that the C drive should NOT be resized if not the OneKey recovery no longer work. But we are given the D drive which is MUCH bigger to contain all my personal data.

  updates take up a lot of my disk drive of the insignificant C, 19 GB space, which, in the end, let me about 700 MB to work with installing progs more. with do I find n reinstall every single update after reformatting the hard drive or do a system restore point? in this way he doesn't eat any more space in my C drive good?

  If not, grateful if you can advice me how to handle this accordingly.

  Hello Vanity.sha,

  Thanks for your reply.  A new installation of any operating system takes about 2-4 GB of space in the partition & after OneKey recovery on system should have been about 75% of free space available. I think there could be some unwanted files & folders on your system, so try to free the C: drive & then try to deploy the update for Vista.

  In addition, Microsoft & 3rd-party application has the ability to store the program files on all available disks, you can install these applications depending on the free space.

  I hope this helps.

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• I have just re installed Windows XP. Windows installed after three attempts. When I turn on the computer there are three choices of Windows XP. Only the first works how to remove the other two?

  I have just re installed Windows XP. Windows installed after three attempts. When I turn on the computer there are three choices of Windows XP. Only the first works how to remove the other two?

  I have a hard drive. At least two partitions. C: 74.7 GB with 63.3 freespace
  D: 74.2 GB with 70.6 freespace
  These are my original specifications of the hard drive: 160 GB (7200 RPM) SERIAL ATA HARD DRIVE WI
  So I suspect there are at least one or more partitions hidden leaving 11.1 GB for hidden partitions!
  Windows is present on both drives C: & D:. In the directory windows on C:, the oldest entry is 19.12.12, 21.43 last 21.12.12, 22.50
  The first entry in the directory windows on D: is 19.12.12, 18.42 the last 21.12.12, 22.40
  I hope that makes sense to someone, any help gratefully received!

  As long as you have verified you dΘmarrez done on the c: / partition, Yes, you can reformat the drive D: / partition using Windows 'disk management '.

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

• Cannot access files on hard disk on windows xp, after I worked with it on win 7.

  Cannot access files on external hard drive on windows xp, after that I worked with him on Victory 7.I can see the file, but he says "is not accessible. access is denied. " Can someone help me?

  As you can guess, this is a permissions problem.  Here, it makes a difference if you have XP Home or Pro you have to safe boot mode to change permissions in the House.

  My crystal ball says that your external drive is formatted with the NTFS file system.  When you connected to Windows 7 (or any other computer besides), the files have been added that this user permissions apparently understood that only Win 7 has access to.  There are several ways to handle this...

  Is to save on all your files and reformat the external hard drive with a FAT32 file system and then support files.  You will have no problems of permissions with FAT32, but you can't have any higher than 4 GB single file either.

  Another way is as an administrator, to 'Ownership' of all the files on the disk
  "How appropriate a file or a folder in Windows XP"
     <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308421 >
  but this could get old if the drive moves back.

  Yet another approach is to give "Everyone" full access to everything on the drive.  This may or may not protect against new folders or files added, but may be worth a try:
  As a user administrator, open a command window:
  Start-> Run-> "cmd".
  Then, enter the command:
  CACLS E:\/t/e/c/g everyone: F
  (where I am assuming that your external drive is mounted as "E:" - change of real player)

  I hope that something more top is useful...
  JW

• No sound after reformatting on Dell Dimension 2350 XP SP3

  Only, I went to read an mp3 file after reformatting last week and got this: "Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with the audio device". My multimedia audio controller, Device Manager has a yellow question mark and a code 28 by the bit of General properties. It's a Dell Dimension 2350 with SP3. Just let the Hardware Wizard find the driver for me?

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/ca/en/cadhs1

  Click on the link above, all your system drivers are here.

  Expand the Audio, there is only one pilot, click on download, note when you save the file in.

  Double-click the file to install the driver.

  Save the link above if you need others.

  If you have the CD Drivers and Utilities provided with the system, the drivers are on the CD.

  Yes, you can leave the installer for you, also Windows Update installs for you, but it is preferable to install yourself, Windows makes mistakes!

• Other devices with yellow! and cannot connect to internet after reformatting

  I reformatted my gateway with the original XP disc. Now the multimedia audio controller is missing and there are several "other devices" with yellow! I tried to update the drivers on the site of the bridge for this model, but it's still a mess, and I can't connect to the net!

  Hi BrianFiles,

  If you have reinstalled Windows XP after formatting the hard drive, then you will need to install all the necessary drivers on the computer for devices work correctly.

  You can try to search for hardware changes in Device Manager and later proceed to reinstalling the driver.

  1. Click Startand then click run.
  2. Type devmgmt.msc , and then click OK.
  3. In Device Manager, click on your computer so that it appears highlighted.
  4. Click Action, and then click find the hardware changes.

  I suggest that you download from the site of the Bridge and save all necessary drivers on the hard drive and then try to install the drivers, check if it helps.

  Also reinstall the drivers for the chipset on the site of the bridge.

  If you still cannot get sound on the computer then go to the link below and run the troubleshooter available, check if it helps.

  No sound in Windows

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/no-sound-in-Windows

  How to troubleshoot unknown devices listed in Device Manager in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314464

  Troubleshooting of conflict of devices with Device Manager
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310126

• What happens if my screen starts flashing after reformatting?

  This happen after reformat my laptop through my cousin, i don't know he's an expert of that sort of thing. Please give me the solution for this problem. My other computer is dell xps m1330, Windows vista and the rest I don't know. any information that needs to fix this please ask me and I will provide.

  You reformatted you will need to reinstall your drivers especially your video driver. Go to http://support.dell.com/ to download and install the drivers. You must provide information about your computer in the site. You may need help from someone who knows.

• Rig crashes even after reformatting, heavy registry problems.

  Hello, I am building this computer in Dec 07, and it was working well until recently. I came one day at home in a very annoying virus and decided to just reformat since AVG and such could not find it. After that I managed to do reformat there great for about a week, then I started to have increase the registry errors, files missing, things like that. I tried to correct as I will, but many seem to just keep coming.

  I am now at the point where I can't complete the Windows Update, is now telling me to do it because when it restarts the login screen does not load. I'm that attribute to a facility missed some video drivers. When I will not start I have 5-6 errors in a line saying that various registry files are missing. I tried sfc/scannow, and it fails to end at 52%, as many others. /CHKDSK does not resolve the problem. Run the Vista installation CD and tried all the options such as the Startup Repair and repair memory (forget what it's called). My internal Sata HDD is also detected as removable storage among other issues. I'm running out of ideas as to why it is so bad that my HD or RAM is corrupted somehow. Any comments would be great.

  Windows Vista 32 bit, AMD Athlon 64 x 2 6000 +, XFX GeForce 8600GT, Asus M2N SLIDeluxe AM2, 520W PSU, 4 GB DDR2, WD 320 HD.

  Hi Stolemyname,

  1. are you able to boot into Windows?

  2. have you made further changes on the computer after reformatting the hard drive?

  I suggest that you scan and remove any viruses or computer malware infection and check if it helps.

  The scan below only works on the 32-bit version of Windows

  http://OneCare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

   

  You can use the Microsoft security essentials to scan your computer

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security_essentials/

  Also, check if the problem persists in safe mode.

  Start your computer in safe mode

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

  Restart the computer to return to normal mode

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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