Dec 10, 2014 I only had a Winows 7 Pro disk which was no use. I have windows pre-installed in my lenovo. Download the appropriate Windows 7.ISO file which. Mar 18, 2013 - Install Windows 7. Prepare DVD Media. * Download Windows 7 Professional 64-bit ISO image from this site. Ready To Print Handbook For Media Designers Pdf Editor. * Burn to DVD media. Install Windows 7. * Boot from newly burned DVD media. * Install a clean copy of Windows 7. Install Drivers. Lenovo Support Download Site. * Go to Lenovo support site.
Hello there, I have some troubles installing or rather activating windows 7 pro 64bit OEM. I pretty much did what is described here: In short: I bought a Lenove T460 this summer, which came preinstalled with windows 7 Pro. The Dreamer The Believer Zip Common Law. But with no COA (Certificate of Authentity) sticker anywhere, not even under the battery.
The only sticker I found was a windows 8 pro one. So I assume that my laptop came with a downgraded windows 7. Mitsubishi Hs U540 Manually. Now I wanted to have a clean install of windows 7. - So what I did first was to create a USB stick with the Recovery image, created via the Lenovo ThinkVantage Tool, to be able to restore if anything goes wrong. - What I did next was to get a windows 7 iso via the WindowsIsoDownloader (e.g. From here: ) - Downloaded the ISO and 'injected' the USB3 drivers successfully as described here: - And to be able to choose the correct version of windows which was preinstalled I followed this link: One of the comments there (from Gab) said: 'If you have a PC with an OEM product key on it set EditionID to the proper Windows 7 version, set Channel to OEM and set VL to 0.
This will install a perfectly legal operating system that passes activation. As a long-time service tech I've done it hundreds of times.' So I set it to windows 7 pro with OEM on!
Afterwards I booted from this USB stick successfully, wiped the SSD clean and installed windows 7, leaving the activation process for later as I thought this would be done automatically (or with the key I extracted from OS beforehand). Unfortunately the activation process after installing windows didn't work. I also tried it with the phone activation, didn't work. Then I read somewhere, that I would've had to run a programm on the preinstalled windows to extract a bit more information to be able to activate later on. (This is maybe more a windows 8 thing, but as this was a downgraded windows 7.) Didn't do this unfortunately.
So I thought, well let's just restore the preinstalled windows from the recovery USB stick. Turns out this doesn't work anymore as I have also deleted the recovery part of the harddrive while wiping the drive. So I called the Lenovo support if they could help me activating windows. I would have to buy the recovery DVDs from them to be able to do so. I also tried to install Windows 8 as the sticker suggests this was the 'original' version of windows installed.