Installing Windows7 While on Ubuntu

[Bare Foot Kid]

You're not supposed to enter the key during the installs, only after.

un-check the "activate online" box

 

[doomgaze]

If I did and it said it wasn't right, can I still use it online?

 

[Petey7]

If it gave the error once, you can make the registry change, then try to activate manually online.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

If I did and it said it wasn't right, can I still use it online?

Yes you will still be able to activate online.

 

[doomgaze]

I just did a whole fresh install again, to start from scratch. Making sure all the updates go through before I begin on option 3

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Try to activate online now.

 

[doomgaze]

Before I go any further should I try entering the key here? Or should I just start doing the stuff for option three.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Go to Control Panel, System and click the "Activate ... " link and add the key there.

 

[doomgaze]

This, right?

 

[Petey7]

yes

 

[doomgaze]

This means I'm all set, right?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Congratulations mate!

 

[Petey7]

You are all set. Congrats man. Hope you enjoy Windows 7 as much as we do

 

[doomgaze]

Thank you everyone that helped, I REALLY appreceiate it. I've been stressing these past few days, this is great.

Thank you again!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Our pleasure!

 

[iseeuu]

Well done doomgaze! I had every confidence in your ability!

Cheers!
Robert

 

[iseeuu]

And getting back to iseeuu, Understanding Disk Partitions

Thank you for the link Night Hawk. Here is a screen shot, and if you notice the green border, that signifies that Windows XP, Vista, and 7 are all installed in an extended partition, within logical partitions or volumes.



You said: "Windows won't install onto an extended volume." and yet there they are.

Cheers!
Robert

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

And getting back to iseeuu, Understanding Disk Partitions

Thank you for the link Night Hawk. Here is a screen shot, and if you notice the green border, that signifies that Windows XP, Vista, and 7 are all installed in an extended partition, within logical partitions or volumes.

View attachment 95408

You said: "Windows won't install onto an extended volume." and yet there they are.

Cheers!
Robert

That should say "Windows won't boot independently from an extended volume" though Windows can be installed to one.

 

[fishnbanjo]

Well done everyone, sorry I could not respond to the 98 SE CD request I had some medical issues. Basically for future references there is a download of Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) available at Windows 98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers

What this does is when loaded on your USB flash drive it allows you to boot into Win 98 SE and use the OS commands like format, fdisk, etc. These would come in handy for times a HDD is not accessible and need to be rejuvenated. What a great team effort, I will be repping all that my current allowances will let me.

 

[Night Hawk]

Geez y'all, all these posts and no-one gave him the easy way to do this, especially since he said there's nothing on the HDD he wants to save.



SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Clean Install Windows 7

Apparently you missed Post #13 where the two guides were pointed to for a clean install and performing a clean install with upgrade media.

And getting back to iseeuu, Understanding Disk Partitions

Thank you for the link Night Hawk. Here is a screen shot, and if you notice the green border, that signifies that Windows XP, Vista, and 7 are all installed in an extended partition, within logical partitions or volumes.

View attachment 95408

You said: "Windows won't install onto an extended volume." and yet there they are.

Cheers!
Robert

That should say "Windows won't boot independently from an extended volume" though Windows can be installed to one.

The advice the OP needed and what worked out wasn't any custom install onto an extended volume but a clean install on a single primary. Why confuse someone new at partitioning with ???

Anyways this thread should be marked "solved" since the OP's laptop now has a working install of 7 on it.