![]() ![]() Finally, I have learned that my Memorex DVD+R disks aren’t burning very well. I have since learned that burning the image from the ISO to a DVD or USB drive doesn’t automatically make it bootable. I also ordered a Dell Win7Pro DVD from a seller on eBay, but by the time I received it, I didn’t need it. What I finally ended up doing is installing HP, then using the Anytime Upgrade option to upgrade to Pro, entered the refurbisher key from the case sticker and, surprisingly, it activated. Well, I finished the Win7Pro reinstall and delivered the PC. My home PCs with Win7 were installed with the HP Family Pack upgrade. I don’t have another box with Pro so I never had a backup for it. The DVDs I have now were made from the HP SP1 media refresh versions, and the 圆4 one didn’t unlock for me for some reason. I am going to try to find a version I have that will unlock after deleting the ei.cfg file or using the ei.cfg unlocker. I am going to work on this a little more and will post back with my results next week. I don’t know what’s going but maybe there are attempts going on to fix the interrupted downloads and then upon resuming the download it “completes” within seconds situation ![]() The same results occur on other ISO links also plus a few other computers I checked out had the same results HTTP Error 404 – File or directory not found The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. The Page or File You Requested Could Not Be Provided Selecting the link for Windows 7 Home Premium x86 English comes up with NOTE! Newer SP1-U (Media Refresh Edition) Links are available >HERE<< comes up with Out of curiosity I checked the Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO Image Downloads today Thank you very much for your help and suggestions. I’ve been looking for a Win7Pro Dell DVD that might work. The DVD did work on another box where I reinstalled HP, so it’s not that. I was surprised that it didn’t work with my media refresh HP 圆4 DVD and will look more into what happened there. ![]() The ei.cfg unlocker worked for me before. I’ve done reinstalls so many times that I didn’t expect any problems that I couldn’t work around. I will contact the refurbisher seller, but I don’t expect them to help, because I could have backed up the ATA install. The messages I got when I input the refurbisher key and the original Dell key were to contact the manufacturer, so there is no use contacting MS. It does say that if you have any key problems, to contact MS and as you have a valid key, perhaps you should do that, explaining the circumstances why you need to reinstall – or go back to where you bought the machine. I tried the Feb 2015 link for the Win 7 圆4 Pro and got a 404 error, yet when I tried the X17-59186 lower down the page which weren’t supposed to work, I was redirected to where I had to input a product key and found that neither a Retail, 圆4 bit or Dell keys were accepted. What is going on with the Windows software? Why is the 3.09gb iso file only 2.619gb when downloaded, and non-bootable? It looks like someone is deliberately causing the iso file downloads to interrupt and corrupt so they cannot be used to reinstall the OS.Īnyone else try to download Windows 7 Pro 圆4 SP1 media refresh ISO file lately? I searched and found one other person on another forum who reported this problem. I thought, aha, I have a Windows 7 HP disk I’ll copy it, delete the ei.cfg file and burn it to a DVD. Either of these options would entail another week wait before I could use the system. Aaaauuuugggghhhh to quote Snoopy.Īt this point my only options seemed to be: 1) see if I could buy a disk from the refurbisher 2) see if I could buy a disk from Dell. The message said to contact the manufacturer. I went to Microsoft’s Software Recovery site and put in the product key on the case, and could not download the software as the key was not accepted. I burned several dvds with the iso file and none of them would boot the system. I repeated this six times today on two different systems and got the same results. I downloaded the ISO file from the Microsoft Digital River link provided here: The download was interrupted, I resumed it, and it completed at less than the stated size. ![]() Since I had installed updates before realizing this, I opted to do a custom install and reformatted the hard drive. (I had never heard of this version.) Upon checking the BIOS settings, I discovered that the OS had been installed in RAID/ATA mode, not RAID/AHCI mode, and the only good way to change this was to reinstall the OS. It had Windows 7 Professional 圆4 SP1 installed and a product key sticker on the case for Windows 7 Pro for Refurb PCs. I recently had to reinstall Windows on a Dell desktop that I bought from a refurbisher. ![]()
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