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I am working on a Dell Inspiron 560 for a friend and I need to reinstall windows 7 on it, however my friend did not have the Dell operating system installation disc needed to reinstall windows 7. However, I have a copy of windows 7 (same version, Home Premium) OEM. Is it possible to use the OEM disk to reinstall windows 7 but use the Dell key on the machine to re-install windows 7?
 
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The problem is, if you have an Oem disk for one computer.
It can setup a machine with the set of drivers for the hardware in that machine only.
If the hardware does not match. Installation of the Os may halt.
Oem is meant for a specific hardware setup.
And often the disk or setup is tied to that machine and its fitted hardware.

If your friends computer still has windows 7 on it.
Then press F8 to enter the extended windows boot options.

Select safe mode.
Once windows has loaded go to system restore.
You can choose a point as to where windows was first installed, that will clear all the garbage out.

Or you can select a system image if it exists on a hidden partition of the drive if none of the drive has been formatted. That will hold the Oem image for that computer and hardware setup.

 
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Insert your DVD in the drive. Reboot the PC. Quickly press DELETE on keyboard so that you go into BIOS. Find Boot Sequence section, put the 1. Boot to DVD-DRIVE. Pres F10 to save. The PC will Re-Boot. Then it will ask you to press any key to boot from CD. Press anyithing and just follow the instructions.
 
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I potentially have a computer with no OS on it? Correct?
 
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The OEM i have it just one i bought off of newegg, it wasnt for the Dell. That still wont work? And windows 7 on the computer is corrupt that is why i need a fresh install not a repair. The repair service is part of what is corrupt sadly.
 
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