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Installing windows 7 OA?
I bought several laptops with no hard drives.
They have HP Win7 PRO OA COA stickers. I googled and the consensus is that they will phone activate just fine. There is some controversy over which iso you need to install win7. Some say any old pro 7 disk will work. Others say that you have to have the proper OA version OEM install disk. I have the final version iso from digital river from before they closed. I've used that in a lot of circumstances, but never had a key labeled OA. Will that work? |
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Installing windows 7 OA?
Disclaimer: I am very uninformed about MS licenses.
mike wrote: I bought several laptops with no hard drives. They have HP Win7 PRO OA COA stickers. I interpret 'OA' as meaning OEM. I googled and the consensus is that they will phone activate just fine. There is some controversy over which iso you need to install win7. Some say any old pro 7 disk will work. Others say that you have to have the proper OA version OEM install disk. My understanding is that OEM COA needs an OEM .iso, not a MS .iso. I have the final version iso from digital river from before they closed. I've used that in a lot of circumstances, but never had a key labeled OA. Will that work? I believe not. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...O/td-p/5782770 Q where can I download a Windows 7 ISO to repair my non booting Windows 7 installation for my HP laptop. A Sorry, but there is nowhere you can download the HP OEM version of Windows 7. - HP does not provide an ISO, and the only thing they do provide is something known as HP Recovery Media. https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/bph07143 HP PCs - Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive -- Mike Easter |
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Installing windows 7 OA?
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:03:47 -0700, Mike Easter
wrote: Disclaimer: I am very uninformed about MS licenses. mike wrote: I bought several laptops with no hard drives. They have HP Win7 PRO OA COA stickers. I interpret 'OA' as meaning OEM. I googled and the consensus is that they will phone activate just fine. There is some controversy over which iso you need to install win7. Some say any old pro 7 disk will work. Others say that you have to have the proper OA version OEM install disk. My understanding is that OEM COA needs an OEM .iso, not a MS .iso. I have the final version iso from digital river from before they closed. I've used that in a lot of circumstances, but never had a key labeled OA. Will that work? I believe not. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...O/td-p/5782770 Q where can I download a Windows 7 ISO to repair my non booting Windows 7 installation for my HP laptop. A Sorry, but there is nowhere you can download the HP OEM version of Windows 7. - HP does not provide an ISO, and the only thing they do provide is something known as HP Recovery Media. https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/bph07143 HP PCs - Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive HP OEM ISO - no, but I've been successful with using a generic ISO (from Digital River) and only using HP to get the right drivers. The best part is that you don't end up with the trialware that they typically include. -- Char Jackson |
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Installing windows 7 OA?
Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:03:47 -0700, Mike Easter wrote: Disclaimer: I am very uninformed about MS licenses. mike wrote: I bought several laptops with no hard drives. They have HP Win7 PRO OA COA stickers. I interpret 'OA' as meaning OEM. I googled and the consensus is that they will phone activate just fine. There is some controversy over which iso you need to install win7. Some say any old pro 7 disk will work. Others say that you have to have the proper OA version OEM install disk. My understanding is that OEM COA needs an OEM .iso, not a MS .iso. I have the final version iso from digital river from before they closed. I've used that in a lot of circumstances, but never had a key labeled OA. Will that work? I believe not. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...O/td-p/5782770 Q where can I download a Windows 7 ISO to repair my non booting Windows 7 installation for my HP laptop. A Sorry, but there is nowhere you can download the HP OEM version of Windows 7. - HP does not provide an ISO, and the only thing they do provide is something known as HP Recovery Media. https://support.hp.com/id-en/document/bph07143 HP PCs - Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive HP OEM ISO - no, but I've been successful with using a generic ISO (from Digital River) and only using HP to get the right drivers. The best part is that you don't end up with the trialware that they typically include. I installed a Digital River "Home Premium x64" on my laptop with Acer "Home Premium x64", and all it took was phone activation using the COA key provided on the bottom of the laptop. ******* If you need a Win7 ISO today, you can use the heidoc.net URL generator, to get a Microsoft URL for the needed file. That bypasses the silly key check that Microsoft normally would do. The Microsoft page will deny an OEM (laptop) user the ability to download an ISO otherwise. https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool Currently at version 5.09. The tool requires .NET and IE11 (as it's probably using some MSHTML engine tricks). https://www.heidoc.net/php/Windows%2...Downloader.exe By using the "Copy to clipboard" buttons on the right, you can even copy the URL into the browser of your own choosing. And then you can visually see the file actually comes from Microsoft. In this picture, the buttons are grayed out until the URLs are "ready". https://s3.postimg.org/jjlidxrir/heidoc_win10.gif Paul |
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