Stuugie
Member
Hi All,
I had to replace my hard drive last week and I've had so many issues with regards to re installing Windows 7 (64). At first it was because of a bad media type, from the burn I did on another computer. So I rectified that by burning the iso with another computer. All seemed good but my install would get to about 90% and then error out saying that files were corrupt or missing. After many hours of searching Google and trying different fixes, I saw a video from Youtube that said the issue was because of bad RAM. However, I ran a diagnostics check on my RAM and all 12 GB of it were a-ok. So back to Google I went and the same guy in a different Youtube video went on about how there are some computers, or hard drives, that are not able to install Windows 7 home premium. He suggested installing Professional. I did that and low and behold the installation was finally a success. However, I cannot use my registration key now because it is not compatible with Professional for obvious reasons.
So now what? It's not like I can simply re install Home Premium because it flat out won't! I tried changing the values to Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM as the ProductName as well as the EditionID to HOMEPREMIUM, as suggested by another forum thread that I came across. This did not work either as my key is still not accepted.
Please, one of you Gurus must know of a fix for me to downgrade my Windows 7 version. I have to find a fix and I can't afford to keep buying hard drives and different Window versions.
Kind Regards from a very frustrated guy,
Michael
I had to replace my hard drive last week and I've had so many issues with regards to re installing Windows 7 (64). At first it was because of a bad media type, from the burn I did on another computer. So I rectified that by burning the iso with another computer. All seemed good but my install would get to about 90% and then error out saying that files were corrupt or missing. After many hours of searching Google and trying different fixes, I saw a video from Youtube that said the issue was because of bad RAM. However, I ran a diagnostics check on my RAM and all 12 GB of it were a-ok. So back to Google I went and the same guy in a different Youtube video went on about how there are some computers, or hard drives, that are not able to install Windows 7 home premium. He suggested installing Professional. I did that and low and behold the installation was finally a success. However, I cannot use my registration key now because it is not compatible with Professional for obvious reasons.
So now what? It's not like I can simply re install Home Premium because it flat out won't! I tried changing the values to Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM as the ProductName as well as the EditionID to HOMEPREMIUM, as suggested by another forum thread that I came across. This did not work either as my key is still not accepted.
Please, one of you Gurus must know of a fix for me to downgrade my Windows 7 version. I have to find a fix and I can't afford to keep buying hard drives and different Window versions.
Kind Regards from a very frustrated guy,
Michael