Window 7 OEM Online Key

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Hey guys,

Building a new PC for my mother in law. I've been looking around for a cheap Windows 7 key. Ended up going with an OEM license from MMOGA. Looks like it is a Dell ISO which doesn't surprise me. Just in the process of making a bootable ISO. Apparently when it comes time to activate I have to do it by phone.

Does anyone have experience with fresh installs of Windows like this? Any activation issues?
 
It's not really legal and the key could end up unusable after a while, with Microsoft even possibly refusing to activate it if they detected the key is not legal. You could try see if it can activate Windows 10 however which should avoid any issues if a reinstall is required in future.
 
Thanks for all the replies.

I downloaded a windows 7 ISO and put it on a USB stick and I've also tried the disk that come with the COA but get the following messages....









I've looked at the error code 0xE0000100 and it looks like a disk partition so I followed something online that you write in the 'command prompt' bit to delete the partition and still no joy. I put the drive in a caddy and did a format and tried again but still no joy either I just get those warning messages come up. Literally spent all day yesterday trying to get it to work. I see another guy on here had the same problem and he also had an MSI mobo so wondering if that has anything to do with it???
 
are you using a usb 2 port (not a blue one)?
your disk looks like it has windows on it already or failed install (system reserved partition is the giveaway), wipe the disk totally and try again

the command thingy is probably
dispart
select disk 0
clean

this wipes the disk
 
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Sorry for the silly question but would it be better to wipe the disk as in a quick format or should I do the command prompt thingy.

I was using a USB 3.1 port but told I need to use a USB2 port and also FAT32 as opposed to NTFS??
 
command prompt thingy, usb 2 port, win7 doesnt have usb 3 drivers
and check in bios sata port is set to ahci mode


quick format leaves the partitons , diskpart clean removes all the partitions, windows will recreate them at install
 
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Thats what I've used mate and its written it as a NTFS file so fingers crossed.

I've checked and the sata port is ahci mode

So I'll delete the drive completely using command prompt...boot from USB which is in a USB 2 port and hopefully I'll be good to go although I'm not holding my breath!
 
'So I'll delete the drive completely using command prompt..'
in the same pc you are installing win on I hope, if you've put the disk in another pc it wont be disk 0
use list disk in diskpart to check if you're unsure
 
I've deleted on the machine I was trying to update. It was showing as something like 58gb and 500mb free and so I clicked on clean and it showed as just a single drive of 59gb which I'm gathering has removed the partition.

I've then tried loading from the USB stick on a USB2 port and it comes up as per the first image saying a required CD/DVD device drive is missing?

So I've tried an external cd drive with a copy of Windows 7 (which was for a dell machine) and plugged the drive in to a USB2 drive as well. CD spins up asks me to select language etc, click install and then it goes to the exact same screen saying a cd/dvd device is missing.

I've then got local C or Boot X to choose from but they don't do anything
 
I got that driver error message when trying to install Win 7 on my new Asus board. The complaint is about missing USB drivers and the manual includes a section specifically for this and a tool for creating a win7 iso with all the relevant drivers.

My current issue is that the key activates fine in Win7 (Pro), but when i do an upgrade to windows 10 the copy is no longer activated and whenever i try i receive an error... probably will just stick with 7 for now.
 
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