The messages I got when I input the refurbisher key and the original Dell key were to contact the manufacturer, so there is no use contacting MS. It does say that if you have any key problems, to contact MS and as you have a valid key, perhaps you should do that, explaining the circumstances why you need to reinstall – or go back to where you bought the machine.

I tried the Feb 2015 link for the Win 7 圆4 Pro and got a 404 error, yet when I tried the X17-59186 lower down the page which weren’t supposed to work, I was redirected to where I had to input a product key and found that neither a Retail, 圆4 bit or Dell keys were accepted.

What is going on with the Windows software? Why is the 3.09gb iso file only 2.619gb when downloaded, and non-bootable? It looks like someone is deliberately causing the iso file downloads to interrupt and corrupt so they cannot be used to reinstall the OS.Īnyone else try to download Windows 7 Pro 圆4 SP1 media refresh ISO file lately? I searched and found one other person on another forum who reported this problem. I thought, aha, I have a Windows 7 HP disk I’ll copy it, delete the ei.cfg file and burn it to a DVD. Either of these options would entail another week wait before I could use the system. Aaaauuuugggghhhh to quote Snoopy.Īt this point my only options seemed to be: 1) see if I could buy a disk from the refurbisher 2) see if I could buy a disk from Dell. The message said to contact the manufacturer.

I went to Microsoft’s Software Recovery site and put in the product key on the case, and could not download the software as the key was not accepted. I burned several dvds with the iso file and none of them would boot the system. I repeated this six times today on two different systems and got the same results. I downloaded the ISO file from the Microsoft Digital River link provided here: The download was interrupted, I resumed it, and it completed at less than the stated size. Since I had installed updates before realizing this, I opted to do a custom install and reformatted the hard drive.

(I had never heard of this version.) Upon checking the BIOS settings, I discovered that the OS had been installed in RAID/ATA mode, not RAID/AHCI mode, and the only good way to change this was to reinstall the OS. It had Windows 7 Professional 圆4 SP1 installed and a product key sticker on the case for Windows 7 Pro for Refurb PCs. I recently had to reinstall Windows on a Dell desktop that I bought from a refurbisher.

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