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Not sure where it fell over last time so set it going again. Seems to be fine second time round in that it has restarted. sorry time wasting
Not sure where it fell over last time so set it going again. Seems to be fine second time round in that it has restarted. sorry time wasting
That particular error can be like that - one misplaced spot of dust on the disk or the drive lens can cause it, so nothing to apologise for :)
next hitch is it says the prodcut key is invalid. 110% sure I have typed it correctly. Is this because I havent wiped the RAID drives and that product key it still in use?
If it is Upgrade version key then
skip the key insertion step
because when you install to wiped HD
you'll have to wait until after install
to to do a workaround to get it to accept key:
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
ah didnt realise I could miss the step of putting in product key i.e. leave it blank. However after I go activate I get this error:
0xC004F061 The software licensing service determined this specific product key can only be used for upgrading not for clean installation.
I have tried phone activation and spoken to someone at Microsoft. They say I cannot use this upgrade disk to install windows 7. I must reinstall Vista and then perform the upgrade. I think this is where we started 16 pages ago so please tell me they are wrong!
I'm really getting my knickers in twist. Re read the tuturial and found the registry workaround which has worked. so seems I am all up and running. Thanks for assisitance and apologise for my flailing. Mike
got as far running registry cleaner and defragger. Having a complete mare with trying to create a system image using windows backup. Firstly tried onto a network drive and got various errors so to save time tried to putit on the other partition of this pc. Didn't throw an error, but has been spinning it's wheels for 2 hours whch is far too long. Couldn't do anything with pc so had to power off - ouch. On restarting the backup seems to show a system image of 10GB - is that the right sort of size as have not installed any programs except cleaners?
Also had an issue with having to do a startup repair after the 2nd lot of windows updates was installed. Started ok 2nd time. Just wondering if any of this is a sign that this pc can't handle Win7?
Why in the world would you run registry cleaners on a fresh install, you need to install Windows 7 and get aquainted with it before you start mucking up the system