Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:41 pm
A friend of my wife's asked me to try to fix her computer (HP 635 laptop). She'd had a virus for some time, and it's rendered the box all but useless. I have a Retail copy of Win7 Home Premium (what was originally installed on her machine, but it was an OEM version) but no PID for it. The restore partition no longer exists so I can't make a restore disk to fix it with so I could use the original OEM PID. I can't pick up a copy of Win7 anything at the MSFT Company store any longer, so I'm kind of stuck.
If it were for us to use, I'd just install Ubuntu & call it good, but it's for a little old lady who can't afford a new machine, so I want to try to get it back to a Win 7 install for her. The problem is, I either need the restore disks from an HP 635, a retail PID for Win 7 Home Premium, or a PID for Win 7 Pro Ultimate.
Suggestions? Anyone got an HP 635 they could make a restore disk from?
If it were for us to use, I'd just install Ubuntu & call it good, but it's for a little old lady who can't afford a new machine, so I want to try to get it back to a Win 7 install for her. The problem is, I either need the restore disks from an HP 635, a retail PID for Win 7 Home Premium, or a PID for Win 7 Pro Ultimate.
Suggestions? Anyone got an HP 635 they could make a restore disk from?
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:52 pm
win 7 always had a pid sticker it was not like windows 8.
look under the battery
go to the library and write down their PID
look under the battery
go to the library and write down their PID
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:42 am
Apparently win10 will be a free upgrade for real and pirated win7/8 installs...
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:16 am
Ops wrote:win 7 always had a pid sticker it was not like windows 8.
look under the battery
go to the library and write down their PID
Not exactly helpful, I already have an OEM PID I can't use, going and getting another one gets me what?
Apparently win10 will be a free upgrade for real and pirated win7/8 installs...
I'm considering this, I can download a free preview for Win10 and install it on her machine. I've got one of the previews running in a VM in Parallels on my Mac, and it hasn't been a problem.
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:42 am
os2firefox wrote:Apparently win10 will be a free upgrade for real and pirated win7/8 installs...
This is probably your best option. If possible, you might want to wait until it's actually released though. That way you won't be doing the OS install twice.
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:18 pm
Why not use the same pid and call microsoft to get a install code. Easy as 1,2,3
Re: Need Win7 Home Premium PID or other solution.
Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:22 pm
Ops wrote:Why not use the same pid and call microsoft to get a install code. Easy as 1,2,3
The PID is the install code, and they won't give out a retail PID for an OEM product.