Activation issue, W7 Home Premium

Night Hawk said:

........Apparently eMachines refused to do anything for him including sending out a factory recovery disk. This is why he bought 7 at the MS online store to begin with.

On one of their older desktop models(XP) when a friend's son trashed the preinstall I ended using a Home edition cd and simply entered to the OEM key following a full wipe of the drive. eMachines didn't provide any recovery disks with the system bought new out of a retail store.

On a much newer laptop or desktop the option to see a full restoration is included as a boot option however. The other option while the preinstalled Windows is still running good is to look into a utility many manufacrturers provide on their support sites for creating a recovery disk.

Perhaps you didn't read my post properly.:)

In his 28 Jan 12 post#2 here the OP has stated that emachines had sent him the Windows 7 Disc."I called eMachines and they sent me a copy of Windows 7"

That is what I had mentioned and asking the OP to try installing with it. It could be the OEM Reinstall disk in which case it may autoactivate.

( Why would they send the Recovery Disks/Reinstall disks again and again ? I am assuming that it is the same machine for which emachines sent the Windows 7 Disc. He hasn't bought a new licence for Windows 7. He has only downloaded the Windows 7 ISO from Digital River, as far as I can gather.)

It seems to me that the OP is trying to activate a wrong version of Windows 7. OP to kindly confirm that he got Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit as originally installed from eMachines. Best is to ask eMachines which Windows 7 version had they loaded in the first instance. If another then download it from Digital River, install it and then apply the Product Key, stuck to the bottom of the Laptop.

If however OP did originally get Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit then he may please phone Microsoft to activate his OS.

PS: Another thing that I noted was that the title and the System Specs mention different versions.

That was a good observation by wanchoo.

I think the OP has to answer many questions.

1. What Windows 7 edition and bit version came pre-installed on his emachine?

2. What Windows 7 edition and bit version DVD did emachines send him (as per his Jan 12 post)?

3. What Windows 7 edition and bit version is he now trying to install?

4. In his first post the OP mentions that he had used the key only once. What key is it? Was it the CAO key on the sticker of his emachine? What Windows 7 edition and bit version was installed then ?

I am using a PC that isn't on my specs. I have 3 eMacines laptops and 2 Vaio laptops. T his is one of eMachines we are talking about. It came preinstalled with Windows 7 HP x64. It only has 1GB ram, so when I decided to reinstall Windows because it was slow, I downloaded the x32 ISO with SP1. Wait, could that be it? Installing w/ SP1, but the product key didn't come with 7?

Doesn't it feel great when one turns out to be right. Just like making a difficult Grand Slam.