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‎03-24-2018 04:57 PM

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Product: Compaq CQ61 318TX
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

My hard drive has failed.

I don't have any backup or recovery disks.

I can access the replacement hard drive via USB on another machine (running win 10 x64)

Is there any way of obtaining a copy of Win7 32 to make the new hard drive a bootable replacement?

 

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‎03-24-2018 10:04 PM

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‎03-24-2018 05:02 PM - edited ‎03-24-2018 05:03 PM

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@Merlin661

IF you can read the 25 character license key on the Windows 7 COA label attached to bottom of laptop you can download an ISO of Windows 7 and burn it to dvd or usb flash drive. Boot from it and install Windows on the replacement hdd.

https://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

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‎03-24-2018 05:07 PM

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Cheryl,

I thought of that but the 25 digit serial on the machine is not recognised by Microsoft - it says contact the machine supplier.

 

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‎03-24-2018 05:26 PM

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MS won't let you use OEM key. The site I posted link to above does.

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‎03-24-2018 09:59 PM

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100% success!!!

Thank you for the help and assistance.

 

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