CarbonLogic

Hello everyone, I just thought of making a simple guide or rather sharing my personal experience of performing a clean install on Win7 on my HP laptop after reading several threads on here. Laptop: HP Pavilion DV6-6050ee (2011) OS: Win7 Home Premium x64 So basically I lost the recovery partition or rather it must have gotten corrupted because the factory restore option got grayed out in the recovery menu. I did not have any recovery media either. So after a lot of reading the next step for me was to Download Win7 Home Premium SP1 x64 retail iso and then update it using the SimplixUpdater. I got the Win7 iso from Digital River on Archive.org, replaced my original HDD with an SSD (crucial BX500), installed Win7 HomePrem SP1 x64 and updated it using SimplixUpdatePack. Also got the drivers updated using Drivebooster and some from the HP product page which could not be installed by Drivebooster. I have kept the windows update turned off, will update using Simplix whenever necessary. Also Windows was activated without any issues using the COA key at the bottom of the laptop which is what I was always concerned about. So this clears my doubt that you can use a retail copy of windows and activate it using the COA key, you dont specifically need to have the recovery image or COEM copy which is what I was searching for frantically before. Laptop has got a new lease at life. Its now feels unbelievably fast when compared to booting from the HDD and with all the HP bloatware that it came with. I have recently got my hands on a Refurbished Dell Latitude 5400 which has got Win10 on it. I am looking for a similar process to perform on this as well. Surprisingly it feels slower than my HP laptop. Its got i5-8365U, 16gigs of ram, nonbranded ssd.

Hey guys, just needed a small clarification. I have a COA Win7 homepremium x64 key for my HP laptop. If I downloaded the win7 2018 iso, will i be able to activate it with the COA key?

Not sure if I am doing something wrong, I am trying to download the Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 COEM, but keeps showing "Error"

I am trying to download the Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 COEM, but keeps showing "Error"

Hi, just a question. I have the OA key for Windows 7 Home Premium HP laptop. Original HDD died and I have no recovery Media. So can I select the Windows7 (august 2018) ISO and use the OA key? Thanks