![]() How do i download pre installed windows 7 home. I want to download a copy of my pre installed windows 7 home premium oa 64 bit come. (windows 10, 8, 7) hp. Download the full bootable ISO clean DVD image of Dell Genuine Windows 7 Pro OEM. Dell Genuine Windows 7 Pro OEM DVD ISO. All pointing the requirements for. I'm only asking for response from people who have personally dealt with this. I'm not looking for conjecture. I am not looking for 'call Microsoft' because I understand I can do that, that's not the answer I'm looking for. I'm working on a purchased system that came with 7 Professional OEM installed. I tried using the OEM key on the COA today to reinstall it using my own Retail disc since the restore disc that came with it is full of bloat. Yes, I reinstalled the Professional edition. The key attempts to activate but can not. It prompts me to call the automated activation center. When I call it says the key can not be activated (wrong type to activate in this method). With XP, I was always able to use an OEM disc to reinstall a system then just throw in the OEM COA tag key. How come this doesn't work with 7 (and I'm guessing Vista)? I understand 7 Retail/OEM uses all of the same media, or at least that's what I've read. In this instance, the key took it just won't activate. In XP days, if you tried to input a OEM key in Retail media it simply would not take it. Is there a difference in 7 Retail/OEM media? I've read somewhere that Vista/7 OEM keys are one time only activations, where an XP OEM key could be reactivated multiple times (like I've done before reinstalling my own system). If OEM keys are in fact one time only activation, does this also apply for OEM System Builders license, say bought from an online retailer? The key on the OEM COA sticker - in my experience over the past two decades or so - has never ever once actually worked, and that's using COA stickers for every OEM you can think of that's ever made a computer running Windows as an OS. I've got a Dell Latitude laptop and while I didn't have the Windows 7 DVD (since Dell and most OEMs don't include them anymore), I knew that going in so I made my own installation DVD of Windows 7 Professional x86 and x64 (two different unique DVDs, of course). It takes seconds to add the necessary $OEM$ folder that has the proper info and files to reinstall that OS as many damned times as I please. All you require when you reinstall the OS on an OEM branded machine - as long as that laptop had Windows 7 on it from the factory (meaning the BIOS has the proper SLIC 2.1 information in it - SLIC 2.0 is for Vista; 2.1 is required for Windows 7) - is the 'royalty key' which is not the one on the sticker, unfortunately. The 'royalty OEM key' is tied to the OEM obviously, it's the key you'd get if you used something like the Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder or some other tool - and obviously if and when you do extract the OEM key from such an installation, it will never match the key on the sticker. The COA sticker is the proof of license/ownership - not the Product Key printed on it which for almost all intents and purposes is absolutely useless. If you have a real Windows 7 Pro OEM installation disc, and it's tied directly to that branded piece of hardware, aka a Dell disc for a Dell, HP for HP, etc, you should NOT need to input a key, ever.
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