Legit Win 7 Pro ISO (found one thanks)

[I4AT]

I have several Dell machines with COA stickers that need fresh OS installs, but having a hard time finding a mirror for a clean Win 7 ISO.

I tried Torrent and the SHA1 hash didn't match so I deleted that.

Now I'm downloading one from "Get Into PC", which is probably clean, but it's ticking at a whopping 25kb/s which means more than 12 hours of downloading. Also pretty sure it doesn't include SP1, which would be nice to have.

So would anyone here happen to know of a faster SHA1 matched mirror to download from, or have a personal copy on a Google Drive or something I could make use of?

Prefer a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit SP1 image, but can make use of any official Win 7 image that can be .cfg modified. Thanks.

 

[JackMDS]

You can try to verify your key and download here.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

 

[I4AT]

Yeah unfortunately the official mirrors only seem to like full retail keys, all the OEM\Dell keys I've tried get rejected.

"The product key you entered appears to be for software pre-installed by the device manufacturer. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options."

The 12 hours of downloading will beat waiting for Dell to ship an OEM install disc, if they're even willing.

 

[postmortemIA]

You can use any Windows 7 retail or OEM disk and ABR tool to inject proper OEM activation files, as long as you know them... look them up online for your particular Dell model.

http://directedge.us/content/abr-activation-backup-and-restore

And to cover this too: this is not hacking to get past activation, it still requires valid SLIC from BIOS.

EDIT. Sorry looks like you don't have any disk

 

[I4AT]

Bleh, just finished the super slow download at Get Into PC, and the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes just aren't matching up to anything I'm able to find online. So I'm probably not gonna use this ISO either. Shame, this site seemed to be highly recommended. Guess I'll have to ask around locally for a disc to borrow.

 

[matricks]

Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 ISO Official Direct Download Links from Microsoft Tech Bench

I've used this method several times, it works great (and the ISO hashes check out).

 

[PliotronX]

One caveat about using a general retail ISO: you might have to run a couple of commands after copying the contents of the Windows\System32\oem folder from the original installation to the new one:

cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ilc %windir%\system32\oem\OEM.xrm-ms
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk {key here with dashes}

Otherwise, it probably will not activate for you.