Repair Install

Hi,

Downloaded the Windows 7 Professional (swedish) SP1 iso as my disc said my system was newer than disc. Repair solved my issues in windows like a charm (windows installer crashing on both install and uinstall).

Afterwards however my Windows is unactivated. Since I only have a disc from Dell with Windows 7 x64 professional I don't (as I am aware of) have a product key printed. I used a key recovery software to find the key but the activation says its for the standard version.

I can not confirm if this key that is found is the one I was previously using or not.

I did make a Windows recovery point to my external hard drive before runing the repair install. Is there a way I could use that to find out what key I was using before?

Thank you in advance.

Fredrik

Kaktussoft said:

fredde1985 said:

Hi,

Downloaded the Windows 7 Professional (swedish) SP1 iso as my disc said my system was newer than disc. Repair solved my issues in windows like a charm (windows installer crashing on both install and uinstall).

Afterwards however my Windows is unactivated. Since I only have a disc from Dell with Windows 7 x64 professional I don't (as I am aware of) have a product key printed. I used a key recovery software to find the key but the activation says its for the standard version.

I can not confirm if this key that is found is the one I was previously using or not.

I did make a Windows recovery point to my external hard drive before runing the repair install. Is there a way I could use that to find out what key I was using before?

Thank you in advance.

Fredrik

sure no COA sticker is on computer? check the back of laptop, check under battery, check battery compartment.

"I did make a Windows recovery point to my external hard drive " how did you make that?

Nice! Now I feel stupid, didn't think to check underneath battery. There was a key different to what I found before and it worked! Thank you!

Not sure if I translated properly from Swedish. From control panel -> back up -> "create a system image" (translated)

Fredrik

Worked like a charm, thank you. The greatest difficulty, and the most time, was in freeing up the needed 26+Gb of free space in the 65Gb Win7 partition on my 128 Gb SSD. This is a dual boot machine, and the rest of the SSD is MintLinux, swap, and shared data. i had to move or delete over 12 Gb of files and programs. Adobe is the worst offender, in saving huge caches, and EULA notices in 26 languages, for each of 12 Abobe Suite programs.

the actual install is slow, and rebooted about 4 times .

What needed repair afterwards?

• Most importantly, boot defaulted to a windows MBR, rather than the Linux Grub, so i had to change the boot drive to restore the dual boot.

• Trying to preserve SSD space I turn off hiberfil, and have a minimal pagefile on the SSD. The install replaced the 1Gb pagefile with 16Gb (equal to my RAM). Easy to fix

• Two utilities, related to a) the motherboard, and b) the soundcard, needed to be reinstalled.

No other problems so far.

thanks much.