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The digital river should work. The CD does not have a key attached to it. If you are asked for a key, just give yours.
The digital river should work. The CD does not have a key attached to it. If you are asked for a key, just give yours.
Thanks guys, I have to get ready and head to work soon, but I will try and get it sorted tonight when I get home! I'll reply then!
Well...ran into some issues. Can't do a Repair Install because the machine won't boot into Windows in any way, so did a format with a downloaded Digital River retail install disk for Win7 Home Prem SP1 64-bit....now I'm in this mess.....
Windows Activation Error - Dell Inspiron, Win7 Home Prem. SP1 64-bit
Surely he meant Startup Repair. You wouldn't reinstall without at least trying Startup Repair from System Recovery Options and if it fails then try System Restore.
I am sorry you were not given the correct repairs. Twice in a row you were given repairs that obviously do not work when Win7 cannot repair.
Last edited by gregrocker; 18 Jan 2015 at 17:53.
I've done a startup repair, it fails. every time. System Restore fails as well, and the restore points (there were only 2 of them), were both from AFTER the problem started, so they were no help anyway. At any rate, I've reformatted the computer now, so I guess I'll close this thread...now I just have the "can't activate" issue in my other thread to worry about 9_9
Thanks Golden!