LEGAL Windows 7 Download Links (Just like Vista before!!!)

no it came with windows home premiun x64 pls hlp!

 

EDITED: I solved my own problem. Thanks!

 

I know this has been mentioned in this thread already however I'd like it if someone can 100% confirm, preferably by their own experience, that I can install the Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit ISO using my current Windows 7 Pro 32-Bit OEM UPGRADE license key. There have been some comments in here saying it will work however need to make sure these aren't just assumptions and in fact someone has actually done this.

Thanks

 

It works.

Source: Me.

 

Yep, keys are valid for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same Windows 7 version (i.e. home premium, pro, ultimate...)

 

Thanks. So definitely even the OEM UPGRADE key I have from HP will work with these full version ISO's ? Just want to be certain before downloading

 

There's only one disc* that all the keys work with and the version changes with the key you use.

*means oem, retail, upgrade etc in this case. Volume License does not count. Home, Pro, Ultimate still their own discs but removing ei.cfg results in AIO disc... confusing at first.

 

no it came with windows 7 home premium now what to do pls hlp

 

You can use a W7 Ultimate disc to install any version of W7 in regard to Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium.

Run the install and enter your key when prompted to do so. The correct version will then be installed.

 

i downloaded w7 and cant get it to work after i enter a legitimate key from a store bought copy, trying to figure out why

 

So, I decided to do the USB way, and I followed all the directions to remove the ei.cfg file from the ISO.

I have a key for Windows 7 Professional 64bit, but it only lets me install premium? What's up with that?

 

Hey Folks,

We've received a number of DMCA notices about this thread. Microsoft is very sensitive about content relative to beta drivers, their code, discussions of unreleased Windows software, and information that provides workarounds to get paid software for free. We're not going to delete this thread, but we have been instructed to find and remove certain types of posts. This is not the kind of thing we like to do but it is in effect a statement of copyright violation by Microsoft, to which we must comply.

 

Can you elaborate on what "certain types of posts" are? Might help us tone it down on other posts, keep us out of hot water with MS legal staff.

 

From what we know so far, it seems MS is taking the most issue with discussion of alternative activation schemes (ie, ABR).

 

Oh, loader software to bypass activation all together, thanks.

 

Can you verify whether ei.cfg is inside "source" folder in the USB?

I have a suspicion that the ei.cfg removal tool is not working properly. I went through it as well and still find ei.cfg inside source folder. If this is the case for you, try deleting the ei.cfg manually.

 

Multi Billionaires in expensive clothing and they complain about legal copies of OS used for clean installs. What's next?!? Billionaire Oil Company CEO complains about his oil dropping by 20 cents per gallon!?!?

Greedy son of a guns! Real Talk!

 

I downloaded all the Windows 7 versions when they were available and created bootable media from the iso files. These have proven to be very useful to re-install and activate with a genuine activation key. I cannot understand why this link has been removed. It is obvious they cannot be activated unless a valid key has been purchased, there can be no issues with the content to remove it.

 

This thread is outdated. Unless you avoid Service Pack 1 for some reason, use the thread in my sig.

 

I have spent two days stuffing around with a broken Windoze 7 machine - an Acer Aspire laptop. Finally decided to use the Alt F10 system that Acer uses to access the restore partition - chose the re-install, make a backup of user data option - after a couple of hours it rebooted - or tried to - no joy, appears to have lost the mbr or the file that the mbr points to...
Tried again, and again - no joy.
A check with the ubcd finds that the backup exists, so I'll copy that off the machine first.
So now I come to this thread to get a fresh W7 iso / usb install so I can re-install the hopeless software that my daughter has paid for, only to find some mention of DRM and the instructions removed.
With all the billions that micro$oft make, how is it that I cannot find a copy of the software I need, and have paid for, that actually works??
Their site is so riddled with checks and references that I cannot find what I need, and now the google links have been neutered.
Where is the customer's right to have access to a working copy of what they have paid for??
Seriously annoyed, big corporates screwing over the individual - yet again!!
How do I get my daughters laptop fixed - why do I have to throw more money after bad?
I am very computer litterate, know how to do all the magic foo that windoze needs to function, yet none of the instructions on the micro$oft website solved my issues - and I tried all seven solutions found on dozens of google searches, registry edits, downloading and running special fixit code etc....
Thus only solution is a complete re-install (go figure - why there is no system that can check and verify an installation - other OS's have this).
No wonder people try to find ways around the officially sanctioned Redmond solutions - their's don't work, thus we need to find solutions that do.
Not beaten yet, I'll crack this.

 

Hello, Rob, welcome to NBR, take a look here.
If you need additional help, don't hesitate to ask.

 

You can still download the images from Microsoft Direct for free. Make sure you backup your valid serial key first.

 

guys can i do the same for Win 8 64 bit? I dont have the COA in my m17r4

 

No you can't use one key for all.

 

im trying to DL the x64 HP version w sp1 but link is not working,or is it just me being stupid?

 

No, it's not just you. The links are dead again.

 

Degree ---I found these links Windows 7 Direct Download Links, Official Disk Images from Digital River ... Just make sure to scan with AV and or Malware program prior to using any of them

 

No reason to scan anything downloaded directly from Microsoft...

 

how can i download? please help

 

Little help here?

I'm installing Win 7 on my wife's laptop from the traditional (Taiwan) Chinese Professional x64 iso (my wife's Chinese, though I would have liked MS to offer a simplified Chinese version). I removed ei.cfg and created a USB installer, but it's not bootable, so I had to install from the existing copy of Win 7. I wasn't given the option to format the drive, so now the drive has two copies of Win7 on it, and I also wasn't given any option to select the version or the language of the installation, which I understand is the purpose of removing ei.cfg.

I'm going to download the English Pro x64 iso, remove ei.cfg, and see if that one is bootable and can give me installation options so I can get a copy of Home Premium (my license level) running in simplified or at least traditional Chinese, but does anybody have any advice for anything else I should be doing?

 

I had the same problem trying to download a Chinese version of Windows. But Microsoft has made them available only on the mainland. So another friend of mine used Thunder to have the OS downloaded from his university in China. We could find no other way other than finding the rare torrents which I don't trust.

I tried putting the traditional Chinese OS on the laptop before I went through the circus mentioned above. She was not comfortable even though many things were similar. She wanted to shrug it off but I didn't let her. Her facial expressions were not pleasant. Removed the whole thing and restarted the process.

Rebuilding the image after removing the ei.cfg file hasn't worked for me in quite a while. Don't really know what I was doing wrong but I use the Professional version only, so no troubleshooting on my part.

Not much help but wanted to put it out there.

 

Actually, that's quite helpful - I followed your lead and downloaded Thunder to nab a copy of Win 7 HP x64 in simplified Chinese. Now I'm banging my head against the bootable USB drive issue. Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool mounts the ISO onto the USB drive, but it can't make it bootable. It advises me to look in to bootsect.exe, but all I can find on that is advice on making a bootable x64 installer from an x86 PC, and I'm running Win 8.1 x64 on the computer I'm using to create the USB.

Anyone have any advice on making this bootable, or should I just install out of the Windows installation? The problem I'm running into is that installing from Windows doesn't allow me to format the drive before installation, so instead of a nice clean installation and drive, I end up with a bunch of the old mess from the hard drive still intact, so I'd much rather format the drive and install from boot.

 

Kinda harder to make a W7 USB-bootable under W8 if I remember correctly. bootsect will throw a missing file error.

Work around for me was to install W7 as a virtual virtual machine, copy the bootsect folder out.
Execute bootsect under the W7 VM on the the USB.


Alternative, you can try boot from Network if your laptop supports it (PXE Boot). - There is a workaround if it doesn't.

Use Serva for Windows. Very easy to setup.
http://www.vercot.com/~serva/

 

Why not create a bootable USB drive manually?

USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create - Windows 7 Help Forums

UEFI: UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive - Create in Windows

 

How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive | Ars Technica
The manual method (mentioned in the octiceps post) would be the one I would use to make sure everything is in order. It is painful but works with no issues. Please see if the bonus part of the article (I have linked to) works if you have the time. I have never tried that before.

 

Yes, that works as well. It is basically the same as octiceps posted except it is purely in cli and without uefi.

It didn't occur to me about about the difference with bootsect with fat32/ntfs.

 

This put me on the right track. I used the Envy 14's temporary Win 7 Pro installation to create the boot drive and it worked a treat. Started it up five minutes ago and finally saw that beautiful option to format the installation partition before installing.

I used a tool "eicfg removal utility" to remove ei.cfg, but it's halfway through the second step of installation and the only language or version options I've seen are the same language and keyboard options you can change in Control Panel at any time after installation.

 

As far as I can remember, the original ei.cfg removal tool worked only on pre-sp1 media.
I think I saw an updated version of the tool in the MDL forums but I didn't look further yet.