Please read over all steps to be sure you understand them before beginning. Ask back any questions in the Comments section below. For example, it is important enough to understand exactly how drivers are handled in the first mostly driver-complete OS that these steps are printed in red. To save pages of space I provide to illustrated tutorials instead of illustrating them in-line.

You can open these in a new tab using your middle mouse button (scroll wheel) or from the right-click context menu. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • •. Find the right Windows 7.iso Microsoft has taken down the Digital River ISO download servers and are only providing ISO's to retail customers. This leaves those who bought a PC with Win7 at the mercy of OEM Tech Support who except for Dell rarely will provide clean Reinstallation media, to borrow a retail copy, or search for a torrent download which can be risky if not checked for add-ins. If you have a retail copy of Windows 7, then you could try to download an ISO directly from Microsoft at the link below. The link is reported to only work in Internet Explorer.

You can borrow a friend's disk to reinstall, even using and then burn a new DVD using ImgBurn at 4x speed, write ISO to 4gb+ flash stick using or for UEFI installs use Option One of If you have any doubt about the integrity of the ISO file or are forced to download the ISO from a torrent you can compare the SHA1 signature available freely on the 'Details' links, using a checker like which adds a HASH calculator to the ISO file Properties tabs. Having these sums match assures ISO integrity and that nothing was added to the file. If your licensed version is unavailable you can unlock all versions in any ISO by running or by deleting ei.cfg file from Sources folder on bootable flash stick.

For more information refer to the, How to manually reinstall Windows 7 on a Dell computer section (when you have the installation disks). Jan 06, 2010 Only those systems sold with Windows 7 installed at the factory will be delivered with the appropriate version of the SLP code. I recall that when Dell began.

Check the HASH first before unlocking the ISO. I would use 64-bit for 4gb or more RAM, 32-bit (x86) for 3gb or less RAM. You can slipstream the latest Updates into the installer ISO to save at least an hour's Updating after install using. However it may take an hour to do this so consider how much you want this. Burn ISO to DVD or to USB flash stick (minimum size of 4GB required) using which is sometimes fussy about the ISO, or alternatively to DVD using at 4x speed, to flash stick using For UEFI installs format flash stick with Option One of making sure the settings shown in picture don't jump around after adding the ISO. Blenderella Character.