- #HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO LICENSE KEY#
- #HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO INSTALL#
- #HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO SOFTWARE#
- #HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO PC#
You can copy/paste your license key from a file later when it is needed.
The smart thing to do is to use the export-option to an USB stick. There is a free edition available for download and it just magically tells you your Windows installation key. My choice is The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder. To dig out the SLP-key, you will need a special piece of software. It is hidden intentionally, for the reason that nobody would ever try anything I'm about to describe in this post. It is a possibility, but not my first choice as there are other options available.Įvery OEM Windows 7 also has an OEM System Locked Pre-installation key. This OEM COA key can be used to activate a Windows 7 installation only via phone. The sticker has the Certificate of Authentication (COA) key. To put it briefly, in every OEM machine there must be a sticker somewhere. The difference of those is explained in detail in this article. When talking about OEM Windows 7 licenses, following license types exist OEM Channel SLP, NONSLP and COA License Product Keys. These are pretty much the only differences when installing to SSD instead of HD, but I definitely wanted to get all of my performance settings right from the beginning. Both of those settings differ when installing to a hard drive.
#HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO INSTALL#
Another thing is that Windows 7 fresh install on SSD takes care of setting the TRIM-flag to the partition and aligns the partitions properly on 4096 byte boundaries.
#HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO SOFTWARE#
The HP Backup & Recovery would provide the cleanest start, but still there are a number of weird software being installed, which nobody actually needs or wants. The reason why I abandoned all of those was that I definitely wanted a fresh start without any old payload. Other possibilities would include Clonezilla, Acronis True Image, or similar to transfer the entire drive with all the partitions. Apparently HP/Compaq chooses to go with this on consumer models. There is an option to create the system recovery image. I found an article Download hp backup & recovery manager which points to softpaq sp45602.exe containing the installer.Īnother way would be to use the Windows 7 built-in backup. The HP Backup & Recovery manager was not installed to this Compaq laptop. This has been covered in articles How do I create recovery discs on a Compaq 615 and Creating Recovery Discs or Saving a Recovery Image to a USB Flash Drive (Windows 7).
It is possible to create a recovery disc from existing installation. There are three good possibilities of transferring an existing Windows installation to the new drive. With hardware you paid for the Windows 7 license. You bought the hardware, you own the hardware.
#HOW TO REINSTAL WINDOWS 7 PRO OA ISO PC#
It is obvious, that when you remove the old hard drive from your PC and replace it with a new one, all your stuff won't be on the new drive. This is a follow-up post on my previous post about Replacing Compaq 615 hard drive with a SSD.