Bought a refurbished laptop with Window 7 Prof. am trying to make a reinstall disc but it wont let me, i get this message:
Error
The product key you entered appears to be for software pre-installed by the device manager. Please contact the device manager for software recovery options.
Where do i go from here? Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Tom860; 06 Mar 2018 at 20:53. Reason: didnt paste message
Hi Tom860,
You appear to have initiated several threads revolving around this or similar issue!
What do you mean?
Reinstall Disk
If your referencing obtaining a Win 7 ISO:
Here:
TechBench
All editions ( pro, home premium, etc ) can be made available from any windows 7 iso - either by removing the ei.cfg file from the sources folder, or by using
eicfg_removal_utility.zip
Other threads were different topic, if this is wrong let me know.
It did, but just received message from seller and they said it doesnt have a recovery partition, so i cant make a recovery disc.....Thanks
It is a refurbished laptop, which means that someone might have removed the recovery partition at some point.
You can download the recovery image from the Dell website, or you can purchase a set of recovery disks. Here is more information:
http://www.dell.com/support/contents...s/media-backup
Ok, there is no recovery partition; doesn't matter, you can re-install Windows 7 Pro, 32 or 64 bit, from any DVD or USB created from a Windows 7 Pro ISO. You will have to re-install any/all 3rd party programs. And, you might need to enter the appropriate product key at some point.
**If you enact and continue a routine backup operation, you can restore en toto everything easily. Whatever date the backup image was, that is your restore date. I average 2 backups per computer per month. **
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