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Old September 7th 18, 07:31 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
winuser
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Default reinstall win 7

HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.
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Old September 7th 18, 11:05 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Big Al[_5_]
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Default reinstall win 7

On 09/07/2018 02:31 PM, winuser wrote:
HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.


CD's are available on line. Free.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...nload/windows7
You need your license code (CD Key) for win7. Also you need to know
what version of Win 7 you have, home, pro, enterprise, 64bit, 32bit.
Actually the bit doesn't matter as the license is good for both.
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Old September 8th 18, 02:15 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zaidy036[_5_]
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Default reinstall win 7

On 9/7/2018 6:05 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 09/07/2018 02:31 PM, winuser wrote:
HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.


CD's are available on line.Â* Free.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...nload/windows7
Â*You need your license code (CD Key) for win7.Â*Â* Also you need to know
what version of Win 7 you have, home, pro, enterprise, 64bit, 32bit.
Actually the bit doesn't matter as the license is good for both.


Can you tell me what status of the Win 7 is offered? Does it include
**ALL** updates to date or is it only SP-1 or some other "old" date
which will require a lot of updates after installing?

I cannot find that info on the web site.

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Old September 8th 18, 03:52 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default reinstall win 7

Big Al wrote:
On 09/07/2018 02:31 PM, winuser wrote:
HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.


CD's are available on line. Free.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...nload/windows7
You need your license code (CD Key) for win7. Also you need to know
what version of Win 7 you have, home, pro, enterprise, 64bit, 32bit.
Actually the bit doesn't matter as the license is good for both.


No, you can't do that.

It was a good idea.

But Microsoft has other plans.

You see, the COA sticker on the OEM PC, when that is typed into
the license key box, Microsoft goes "hmmm, that's an HP key".
And "my deal with HP, is HP provides the media, not me".

The customer key typed in then, will be rejected.

*******

And you might ask, "well, what does quality?". Only
the most Mickey Mouse situation applies. A person who
bought Retail Windows 7 from Newegg, loses their box
of software, but kept the key. And they use that key in
your download link above, and they get their x32 and x64
ISO files, to be able to make DVDs again.

So how many people does Microsoft end up "helping" ?
Almost no one. Cool, eh. What a plan.

*******

The Heidoc URL generator has fallen on hard times. Microsoft
has tightened up the Techbench interface enough, that the
tool has trouble getting through. The "rate" that URLs
can be generated now, is quite limited. As a customer
forced to use this tool, you'll have to be patient.
If you get a chance to get your media, don't throw
away that chance.

The Heidoc URL generator has two copy buttons. When
the buttons are used (one at a time), the URL is put
in the copy buffer. You paste the URL into a web browser,
note it is pointed at Microsoft, then do your download.
You don't have to do the download from the Heidoc
tool.

The Heidoc tool has a coin miner. The tool will ask
if you will allow coin mining while the tool is "open"
on the screen. If you want to allow coin mining
while downloading within the tool, that's your
business.

The Heidoc tool uses Internet Explorer and a
fairly high version number of dotNET. As a consequence,
you can't run this on WinXP and generate the URl there.
You'll probably need Win7 at a minimum, to generate
the URL.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool

"Download: Windows ISO Downloader.exe
Version: 6.22
Release Date: 7 September 2018
Requirements: Windows 7 or newer, .NET Framework 4.x,
Internet Explorer 8 or newer.

Important: Generation of new links for Windows 7 and Office 2010
is currently throttled, and not every download is always
available. New links are generated according to community
demand, with users who choose to donate their idle
resources getting priority treatment. We also buy used
Win 7 and Office 2010 licenses to increase the number
of downloads that we can offer.
"

Which makes it sound like they're using the license keys from
those materials, as a proxy for the download link generated.

The mechanism used, has absolutely nothing to do with the
result. It doesn't matter to you, how they generate the URL.
The actual download comes straight from Microsoft, so any
monkey business between the tool and the Microsoft site,
is neither here nor there.

For most people, this is absolutely the last chance to get
media direct from Microsoft. DigitalRiver "dried up" years
ago. And fudging the key to get a URL, is all that's left.
OEM laptop owners are the perfect use case for this, the
people who need the help most, can't rely on Microsoft,
as it's "HP's problem". Etc. And HP washes their hands
when the three year warranty is up (which was a zillion
years ago).

The media downloaded, should match what was on the laptop.
If it came with Home Premium, you download Home Premium,
so the COA sticker on the laptop will work.

*******

If you want to Torrent the media, no problemo.

You'll need a SHA1 or SHA256 hash to verify the ISO received.
MD5 digest is a little too weak now, to be used
as unambiguous "proof of goodness". SHA1 is probably
getting a little weak. Who knows, maybe a box full of
video cards is getting close to computing a collision
for SHA1. SHA256 is likely better today, but
don't expect every piece of media on earth to have
a trustworthy SHA256 sitting around for you.

For the moment, use Heidoc to get the ISO. If it
comes to Torrent, further research will be needed.
(I hear the MSDN web page has hashes listed again.
The MSDN images get uploaded Torrent-style, and
are then available for download with an appropriate
Torrenting tool.) MyDigitalLife (MDL) likely has
hash values sitting around as well.

Good luck,
Paul
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Old September 8th 18, 04:31 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default reinstall win 7

"winuser" wrote in message news

HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.



Try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelGg2CFpwY

F11 gets you to the recovery partition.

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Old September 8th 18, 08:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default reinstall win 7

Zaidy036 wrote:
On 9/7/2018 6:05 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 09/07/2018 02:31 PM, winuser wrote:
HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.


CD's are available on line. Free.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...nload/windows7
You need your license code (CD Key) for win7. Also you need to
know what version of Win 7 you have, home, pro, enterprise, 64bit, 32bit.
Actually the bit doesn't matter as the license is good for both.


Can you tell me what status of the Win 7 is offered? Does it include
**ALL** updates to date or is it only SP-1 or some other "old" date
which will require a lot of updates after installing?

I cannot find that info on the web site.


The best you can get is SP1.

To be followed by a hundred+ other updates
via Windows Update.

One way to do it, is to use wsusoffline.net tool.

http://download.wsusoffline.net/

What it does, is the tool runs on your "technician"
machine, and it downloads the list of updates (to SP1).
Included in the list, is a series (five or so) "critical"
updates. These critical updates repair Windows Update
enough so that it works. This makes it easier later,
to check in with Windows Update, and get one or two
missing ones.

You carry the folder of collected materials over to
the machine that received the fresh SP1, and kick
off the installer on the wsusoffline client folder.
And it will install all the updates.

Then run Windows Update.

Windows Update will come back in around four minutes,
with a list of updates.

While you can use the "convenience rollup", otherwise
known as "SP2", there are still another 60 updates
after that. That one doesn't save you much effort.

Steps:

1) Install SP1 version of Windows 7 from DVD.
(I bought a Win7SP1 disc for my other computer, so
that's a shipping disc.)

2) Use Wsusoffline.net folder, install updates.

3) Run Windows Update and get the last few updates.

HTH,
Paul
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Old September 8th 18, 03:05 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Frank Slootweg
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Default reinstall win 7

winuser wrote:
HP Pavillion
dv4-2145dx
Win 7 Home Premium

have access as user only. have password for user.
do not have password for admin account.

I believe there is a recovery area.


Indeed, there should be a Recovery Partition. As Bob_S also pointed
to, you can use the Recovery Manager to re-install the system from the
Recovery Partition.

The 'Backup and Recovery User Guide' explains how to do that. See the
section 'Recovering from the dedicated recovery partition'.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01854060

Note: You could have found this on the HP Support website by searching
on the product number (dv4-2145dx) and take it from there.

I advise to download some more of the User Guides, preferably to a USB
memory-stick or something, so they are available if needed, also if the
system is down.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-dv4-2100-entertainment-notebook-pc-series/4074361/model/4121225/manuals

Do not have CDs.

How do I do a clean reinstall of Win 7 Home Premium on this laptop ?


*First* try the Recovery Manager / Recovery Partition. Only if there
is no Recovery Partition or it's not functional, you can try to get
Windows 7 media by the methods the others have given.

no data backup is needed.

Thank you.

Easy steps please as I am not a computer expert.

 




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