How To Wipe And Reinstall Windows 7
May 15, 2019 A clean install of Windows is the right way to go when all other software troubleshooting you've tried has been unsuccessful and you want to install or reinstall a 'clean' copy of Windows. Mar 29, 2019 Move the installation tool to the top of the section. Usually, you'll press the + key while the tool's option is selected to do this. With your installation option at the top of the 'Boot Order' list, your computer will be able to find and recognize the Windows 7 installation file. The computer will ask you “Are you sure you want to erase everything on drive c:”, type “Y” and then press Enter when prompted. The disk cleanup process has started and will take an hour or more to complete. By following these steps, you can easily wipe a Windows 7 hard drive even without a disk.
New computers that come preinstalled with Windows 7 often have what is called a recovery partition. This is used to reinstall the operating system in the event of a system crash. To access it, you will need to boot into when you start your computer by pressing a function key. This can be either F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 or even DEL or Tab key. Consult the owners manual that came with your PC for instructions about how to reinstall Windows.
- Samsung uses ESC on most of its systems
- HP uses F9 on most of its systems
- Fujitsu uses F12 on most of its systems
- Acer uses F12 on most of its systems, but you often need to go into the BIOS to enable it
- Dell uses F12
In general, look at the screen during POST for a hint about what is possible.
If your recovery partition is not available or damaged, you should contact the manufacturer of your computer and request a recovery disc set you can use to reinstall Windows 7. They might charge a small shipping and handling fee.
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download one of the following:
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso
You are going to edit the contents of the .ISO file and remove the ei.cfg file. After editing burn it to a blank DVD disk or put it on a thumb drive. Boot from it, this will reveal all editions of Windows 7, select the Starter edition. More information in the following article about how to edit the ei.cfg file
Ei.cfg Removal Utility Lets You Use Any Product Key
http://lifehacker.com/5438005/eicfg-removal-utility-lets-you-use-any-product-key-with-your-windows-7-disc
we will edit the image and remove the ei.cfg file so we can reveal all editions of Windows 7 during the installation and select Windows 7 Starter. Lets take a look at doing it step by step.
After downloading the eicfg removal utility, you need to extract, since its in a .zip file. Just right click it and click Extract All.
Double click the eicfg_remover.exe file to launch it.
Browse to where the Windows 7 Image (.ISO file) is stored, select it and click Open.
That’s it! the ei.cfg file is now removed. The next step now is to reinstall Windows 7 Starter. Because most Netbooks do not include a DVD drive, you will have to use a tool such as the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool)
This simple tool will help you convert the same image file into to a USB thumb drive. For installation purposes, you should get a thumb drive that’s at least 4 GBs in size to store the installation files. Browse to where the Windows 7 Image is stored, open it.
Original trivial pursuit game. Select the USB device where you want to have the backup stored to for installation.
Once the USB device has been identified, click the Begin copying button.
And that’s it, the next step now is to boot your Netbook from the thumb drive, make sure the thumb drive you will be installing Windows 7 from is plugged into the USB port. This might vary by manufacturer, but the usual one to try is F12, start your Netbook and press F12 repeatedly until a screen is displayed giving you the option to boot from a USB Memory device, select that and press Enter on your keyboard.
Windows 7 will boot as it normally does into the setup environment, the only difference this time is, you will be given a choice to select the edition of Windows 7 you want to reinstall. Carefully click through during the setup wizard.
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Select Windows 7 Starter and proceed with the installation as normal. I suggest that you create a backup once the installation is complete.
Once setup is completed, you should have Windows 7 Starter installed. You can enter the product key and activate using the following method:
Click Start, type: CMD'
Right click CMD
Click Run as adminstrator
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At the command prompt, type the following commands:
slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx (allows you to replace the current product key with the specified)
xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx - represents your product key