Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Hi Thebeholder
Before Gregrocker or other technician comes to help you, I could give you some informations.
But please you have to trust only them because I'm newbie too, also my english are very bad and they can bring misunderstanding.
First.
Belarc is just for informations. All the hardwares-softwares-programs-keys-drivers( and versions)-updates(you have or need), which are in your system.
So it is like a guide for you that you know after a clean install for what you have to search ...if you need it etc.
It doesn't give installers. But even so, it is very handy to have all that informations in one place (the keys also!)
What is this "setup" folder? Who told you that contains everything you need?
The DVD with drivers and prog. yes is usefull, but you have to check if there are newer versions (which often are solving bugs),
and for the softwares you have to check if there are bloatwares- crapwares from factory which maybe you don't need! (they'll use your resources
like cpu, ram etc without a reason...making your system slower...)
Second.
System reserved partition the installer creates only if you don't have any partition when you install Windows.
eg.When all your disk is an unallocated room.
If already you have partitions then the installer moves all the relative files in C: .
I suppose because it doesn't know what the rest partitions are (eg. maybe different operating systems etc), so it makes installation "independent".
Finally
..Why don't you read the tutorials before you act? Everything is explained in details from the "experts" in this forum!
Before you are connected to the Web...."nobody" knows if you wrote or not the key....(I suppose again..just logic..)
If you was reading the tutorials from before....you'd know that everybody suggest to DON'T check "when I'm on line..." because then you have only 3 days..
When you don't check you have trial period 30 days and with some tricks 90! Enough time to see if Windows runs smoothly
and if you are satisfied then you can continue with activation.
....and of course you have to use the coa key which is under your laptop or in bataries room. Find it and write it before 3 days expires...
Unfortunately I cannot help you more because I don't know when the 3 days expire..what is going on....(maybe to install again Windows?)
.......but like I saw you have activated succesfully......So be happy if it is so...

That's all I could tell you until an expert comes to help you...
...Good luck!

You can print out Belarc and any other web page using File>Print. If you want a digital copy then choose to print using MS XPS Document Writer and save to your backup.

System Reserved is created when you partition using the booted installer.

You must have typed in an incorrect character for the Product Key the first time. Otherwise it wouldn't have asked you to supply another.

You must have typed in an incorrect character for the Product Key the first time. Otherwise it wouldn't have asked you to supply another

Thank you very much,
I didn't supply another key. However I have been asked again to enter the porduct key when I clicked on 'Ativate now' link. After clicked on 'activate now' I was asked to choose the way of activation. There were three 'Automatic phone, buy another key, and enter product key. So I chose the third one 'enter product key'. Then I entered the same one I have entered while installing a clean install.
My question is I shouldn't have been asked again as long as I entered the key while installing and clicked 'Automatic activation online'

Why don't you read the tutorials before you act? Everything is explained in details from the "experts" in this forum!
Before you are connected to the Web...."nobody" knows if you wrote or not the key....(I suppose again..just logic..)
If you was reading the tutorials from before....you'd know that everybody suggest to DON'T check "when I'm on line..." because then you have only 3 days..
When you don't check you have trial period 30 days and with some tricks 90! Enough time to see if Windows runs smoothly
and if you are satisfied then you can continue with activation.
....and of course you have to use the coa key which is under your laptop or in bataries room. Find it and write it before 3 days expires...
Unfortunately I cannot help you more because I don't know when the 3 days expire..what is going on....(maybe to install again Windows?)
.......but like I saw you have activated succesfully......So be happy if it is so...

I think I have read the tutorials very well. However, I seemed fairly lazy to let the three days pass without activating Windows and see what will happen. Because I was afriad that I would be required to install again. So I would only know what it would be going on if I hadn't activated until three days were passed.

And the most strange thing is before I activated Windows I created a restore point. Then I have activated the windows. After that, I have restored my system to the restored point created before Windows was activated. But I was quite sureprsied that windows is still activated.

There's no need to sweat activation if you have a readable Product Key on COA sticker as we've never had someone refused activation who inputted the correct key for the licensed version.

90% of the time an incorrect character is the cause of rejecting key at any stage.

So there's no real mystery why. An "8" looks so much like a "B" it happens to me about every third time.

Thank you so much.
I didn't intend to refused the activation when I tried restored a point created before activation. However, I restored for some other error I faced. But I was quite surprised that I restored Windows, it remained activated, although all programs and drivers have been remove.

● I also recommend running Puran free boot-time defragger + Full Disk Check (after checking Intelligent Optimizer on Additional Operations tab) for state-of-the-art defrag which includes System files.

So my question is how to do 'full disk check', there is no option in Puran.
Can I do this:
Open up Computer and then right-click on the drive I want to check, and choose Properties, or just click the drive, and then click the Properties button.
Then I select the Tools tab, and click the “Check Now” button.

Or there are other ways much better?

If Full Disk Check doesn't show up here, then choose just the Disk Check w/Defrag:

Thanks a lot, It is shown.

I would like to ask you if it is recommend to let all of these icons in the system tray be unloaded in startup via msconfig, aside from NIS and MAM highlighted in this screenshot



In addition, I have other external hard drives on which all my important data is saved as a achieve. I really fairly consistently delete and copy data(Setup files, pictures, and images of Macrium to these hard drives). So if I had done a Puran free boot-time defragger + Full Disk Check for them, it would have been useful because sometimes I see that the drive goes frozen and not be responded quickly when I clicked on the folders inside it.

That seems like a lot of Tray icons. I never like to see much more than Skydrive and AV at all times in mine. Have you unchecked everything else in msconfig>Startup and >Services after Hiding all MS Services? Try that to see if there's something you really need not starting.

If one of them is a wireless manager (looks like it) I would disable and later uninstall it after defaulting to WIn7's superior wireless.

Thank you very much, when I unchecked them in the msconfig, they became unloaded in startup.


I know what is being written below seems out-off topic. However, could you possibly tell me if I had proceed with a Puran free boot-time defragger + Full Disk Check for them, it woudn't have been worse?

I have other external hard drives on which all my important data is saved as a achieve. I really fairly consistently delete and copy data(Setup files, pictures, and images of Macrium to these hard drives). So if I had done a Puran free boot-time defragger + Full Disk Check for them, it would have been useful because sometimes I see that the drive goes frozen and not be responded quickly when I clicked on the folders inside it.