You will most likely need to use the product key printed on the sticker (inside the battery compartment if not on the case) to activate the OS.
Once you have this, you have a choice of media to create:ġ) If you can boot from CD, download and install ImgBurn and use the Write Image to Disk option to create a bootable DVD.Ģ) If you can boot from USB, download and install RUFUS and use the option to create a bootable USB stick from the ISO file. You can try using Windows images downloaded using the tool from this site:ĭownload the tool, run it, and do the following:Ģ) Under Select edition, if you were running Home Premium, select the Home Premium SP1 COEMĤ) This tool will then check the product code in your PC, and if it is OK it will put up another link allowing you to download the image file.ĥ) Select the product language, click confirm buttonĦ) Select either the 64-bit or 32-bit download This can usually be fixed by doing something known as a Repair-Install - in which you use MS OS installation media to overwrite Windows, essentially restoring the system files.īut to do that, you need OS installation media, and with WIn7 PCs, this generally means a Win7 DVD - and those have not been sold for some years, now. Sounds like something is corrupted, most likely regarding permissions, in Win7. Is not a hadware issue, so running UEFI diagnostics would not help.