Win7 Refurbished ISO Download
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@thanksaj said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Hubtech said:
So, it appears M$ has taken down mydigitallife.com's list of ISOs that I used to download from and M$'s site will not allow me to download the Refurb w7 image using my clients key(and they of course didn't save a disk). Anybody know where I can quickly download the x64 W7 Refurb ISO?
To my knowledge, the Refurb keys will activate on a normal VL ISO.
As long as it's not Enterprise there is nothing baked in special about the Win7 editions with the channel keys you use (OEM, Retail, VLK or refurb) Some OEM have their own edition with BIOS activation though, but even those if they don't have the proper means to activate automatically will take a normal key.
Usually. I've seen OEM ISOs be screwy about taking even the OEM keys...
That was true in the XP days. With Windows 7 they have too.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksaj said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Hubtech said:
So, it appears M$ has taken down mydigitallife.com's list of ISOs that I used to download from and M$'s site will not allow me to download the Refurb w7 image using my clients key(and they of course didn't save a disk). Anybody know where I can quickly download the x64 W7 Refurb ISO?
To my knowledge, the Refurb keys will activate on a normal VL ISO.
As long as it's not Enterprise there is nothing baked in special about the Win7 editions with the channel keys you use (OEM, Retail, VLK or refurb) Some OEM have their own edition with BIOS activation though, but even those if they don't have the proper means to activate automatically will take a normal key.
Usually. I've seen OEM ISOs be screwy about taking even the OEM keys...
That was true in the XP days. With Windows 7 they have too.
Yeah. Haven't dealt with this on 8 or 8.1 as of yet...
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@GregoryHall said:
Try the key on the recovery site... does it allow you to proceed?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recoveryThis did not work for me recently when I tried to download a copy of Windows 7 for a HP 2760p Windows Pro device.
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How do y'all not have an ISO store? It's easily one of the best ways to kill some storage space. When I get new software in it gets ripped to an ISO before it even gets installed. Date & Version # go in the file name, all versions get kept for compatibility reasons.
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@MattSpeller said:
How do y'all not have an ISO store? It's easily one of the best ways to kill some storage space. When I get new software in it gets ripped to an ISO before it even gets installed. Date & Version # go in the file name, all versions get kept for compatibility reasons.
I still have my Win 98se, 2000 and XP Iso's haha.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I still have my Win 98se, 2000 and XP Iso's haha.
lol damn right! so do I
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I know there used to be (and appears to still be) a problem using OEM keys on VL media. I only maintain an inventory of VL media, and the machine I was fixing needed the OEM media.
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@Dashrender said:
I know there used to be (and appears to still be) a problem using OEM keys on VL media. I only maintain an inventory of VL media, and the machine I was fixing needed the OEM media.
When Have you had a problem with that? I keep one copy of Windows 7 Pro 64bit and use it both for VLK, Retail and OEM keys. Never had an issue with it. But with oem key's you need to use the key on the COA not the key windows would show it's installed with, as this generates during activation and will have -OEM in the random key. System builder kits as the same as oem as well.
The windows 7 Enterprise I have is the only one that has to be VLK
You probably just need to edit the ei.cfg file on your iso then.
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Here's the Ei.cfg info. http://www.askvg.com/how-to-choose-desired-windows-7-edition-version-during-setup/
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
I know there used to be (and appears to still be) a problem using OEM keys on VL media. I only maintain an inventory of VL media, and the machine I was fixing needed the OEM media.
When Have you had a problem with that? I keep one copy of Windows 7 Pro 64bit and use it both for VLK, Retail and OEM keys. Never had an issue with it. But with oem key's you need to use the key on the COA not the key windows would show it's installed with, as this generates during activation and will have -OEM in the random key. System builder kits as the same as oem as well.
The windows 7 Enterprise I have is the only one that has to be VLK
You probably just need to edit the ei.cfg file on your iso then.
I haven't tried it in so long I couldn't tell you the last time I had the problem at all. In the end I dug through my archives and found the original install media and just used that.
