What I thought would be a 1 hour task took closed to 10 frustrating hours.<\/p>\n
I completely wiped my entire computer and re-established the RAID system.\u00a0 When I bought Windows 7 upgrade I created a boot CD and thought I’d just put that in and install windows.\u00a0 Well the install went through just fine until I had to enter my product code.\u00a0 Apparently since I bought the upgrade I needed to have another verison of Windows already installed.\u00a0 So no problem I figured I would just use the Vista CD that came with my computer.\u00a0 Well it isn’t a bootable disk which posed as a problem.\u00a0 I attempted to create a USB boot disk following a few instructions from web sites, but that didn’t seem to work.<\/p>\n
I decided to cheat a bit then.\u00a0 I re-isntalled Windows 7 using my disk and then found a product code online that worked for a Dell (32KD2-K9CTF-M3DJT-4J3WC-733WD — XXXXX-OEM-8992671-00524 — DELL)<\/span>.\u00a0 I made sure to keep my computer offline as I imagine the product code is banned by Microsoft.<\/p>\n Once Windows 7 was installed I used my legal<\/span> Windows Vista 32-bit CD and did a full clean install.\u00a0 From there I then did a full install to Windows 7 64-bit using my paid product code.<\/p>\n So in total it took 3 installs to get my PC back working, but in reality it took me about 12 attempts to get there.\u00a0 Not a fun time to get back up and running and I’m really disappointed to find out that Dell didn’t give me the tools to install Vista on my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What I thought would be a 1 hour task took closed to 10 frustrating hours. I completely wiped my entire computer and re-established the RAID system.\u00a0 When I bought Windows 7 upgrade I created a boot CD and thought I’d just put that in and install windows.\u00a0 Well the install went through just fine until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}