[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

[Brian Mathis]

For Window 7 at least, there is almost no difference in media between
Retail and OEM channels.  (Actually, OEM is 2 different channels, OEM-SLP
and regular OEM.  The SLP version is what large vendors ship, like Dell,
etc...  You only get the regular OEM version if you buy Windows from
somewhere like Newegg).  In fact, if you backup your OEM license prior to
reinstallation using this tool (written by me):
    http://directedge.us/content/abr-activation-backup-and-restore
you can restore your the OEM-SLP license after you do a reinstall.

When you install, you simply don't enter a serial number and then Windows
goes into 30-day trial mode, and run the restore using that.  Even if that
fails, there's still an OEM serial number on the bottom of the laptop that
you can use.  It typically doesn't activate using the online method, so you
need to call the automated phone system instead, but it does activate.

This was not the same in the XP days, where there was actually different CD
images depending on the license type.  This is no longer the case since
Vista (However, a vendor can create custom images if that want, and those
images might have various options preset)


❧ Brian Mathis
@orev



On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> Neat resource for the retail media. Would be nice if OEM vendors did the
> same thing with their images.
>
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> On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/
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> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/26/2015 12:17 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
>> > I missed the bit about the third drive.  Yes, if /dev/sda and the old
>> > drive can be completed unmounted in your current booted system, no
>> > reason not to do it as you just described.
>> the sequence is.. I had Windows 7 on the original drive. Added linux,
>> ran out of space... added a second drive, more linux partitions, started
>> booting off of the 2nd drive. replaced the original sda with with NEW
>> 3TB drive.. tried to clonzilla windows, it puked.. copied all the old
>> windows files in, it still puked. still booting linux on sdb, so sda is
>> pretty much spare. I can plug in the original drive via USB so I can
>> actually have all 3 drives available. I did that to copy the windows
>> partition back & forth..
>> so I think dd might work... let me think about that:)
>>
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