If you've recently downloaded the latest windows 7 loader 2.0.6 and still doesn't work on your system then you probably have the UEFI motherboards. The loaders will not work on motherboards with UEFI, every time you try to activate your copy, your system won't boot no matter what you do. You may fix the boot failure but still you'll not be able to activate your copy. However there are steps that you can do, but you'll have to reformat the entire system.
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Anyways, here's how to successfully install and activate your copy.
1. Boot your system using your Windows 7 installation disc.
2. Then go to repair options then select the command prompt.
3. Next type the following sequence of command below:
diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
clean
convert mbr
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=ntsf quick
4. If the last command won't work, you may skip it.
5. Type exit to close command prompt.
6. Now proceed to the installation process. Start by booting using your windows 7 installation disc.
7. When you have finish installation windows 7, use the windows loader again to activate your copy.
That's it.
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6 comments:
that's a pretty nice method to activating windows 7 on uefi enabled main boards. keep up the good work. love the blog theme and layout!
This did not work for me. The command prompt sequence worked fine, but after booting to the Windows 7 disk again, received the following : Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.
yea thats my problem too is there alternative to daz loader?
lol, thit joke, tha tis not solution...
If you want to install on mbr disk you have to disable uefi in bios! that step is not mentioned in the instructins. UEFI only works with GPT and LEGACY can only boot from MBR!
I am looking for a loader that will work with GPT installations myself, since my copy decided to suddenly go non-Genuine... However, I can say that there is a workaround here for those that are looking for a clean-install (and don't have data to worry about losing) or are looking to migrate an (already activated) installation from MBR to GPT.
If you want to migrate Windows from MBR to GPT, it cannot be OEM, and you will need a second disk at least twice the size of the used space of your source MBR. Also, get a copy of CloneZilla Live (USB/CD), and familiarize yourself with fdisk for converting a disk to GPT and enabling its bootable flag. Also, familiarize yourself with your disk's properties, such as size, label, device/partition identifiers, etc. You can drop to Shell command prompt before cloning anything by selecting option 2 after confirming keyboard and language.
This is also the method I employed to migrate from a completely-full 500GB disk containing my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (MBR) over to a 4TB disk (GPT). It originally slipped my mind that disks with more than 2TB require GPT partition schemes in order to make full use of the disk, so you could forget too.
If starting with a clean install rather than migrating an existing, begin by installing Windows to an MBR disk, activate it, create admin account, then login for the first time. After you login, do a clean shutdown, and begin with Step 4. Note that you don't need to install this to the target disk you ultimately plan to use; this installation will only serve as the holder for the activated filesystem and OS, and therefore only needs to be twice the minimum size necessary to complete the clean (and activated) installation (~40GB will suffice). Be sure to leave an empty partition that is no smaller than the C:\ drive and is formatted in NTFS with the same unit allocation size as C:\ (i.e., 512B, 1KB, 4KB, etc).
If you want to be extra safe, Step 1 should be to Clone you entire Windows disk to another Disk of equal/greater size.
1. Clone your source Windows and data partitions to another disk; this is your backup. Identify/Create another partition that has enough free space to hold your Windows Filesystem. Be sure to notate which partitions were placed on which disks (and the new partition numbers they are receiving); you could label all of your partitions before cloning them to other disks, so they can be easily found/identified, especially if using more than one holding disk.
2. Drop back to the shell command prompt and reformat the original disk, changing its partition style to GPT, and leave the disk empty. Be sure to save your changes.
3. Reboot and start your Windows Installation Media (must boot the installer in UEFI, not LEGACY).
4. Install Windows to the disk that has been converted to a GPT disk. Create partitions for any extras you saved in Step 1.
5. After Windows is installed, reboot and start up CloneZilla again.
6. Drop to shell, mount your backup and designated empty partition, and clone your MBR filesystem to the empty partition using the ntfsclone tool. Save the MBR filesystem as an ntfsclone imagefile with the timestamps preserved.
7. Now mount your GPT disk, then use ntfsclone to restore the backup image to your GPT partition, preserving timestamps and overwriting exisiting files. Repeat method as necessary for other saved partitions (DO NOT simply clone MBR partitions onto a GPT disk, it may cause alignment errors).
8. When the clone completes, reboot from the GPT disk. If the OS hiccups during reboot (because it can't figure out how to 'move over' to run as a different disk number, simple launch the OS repair and automatically detect/fix the problem (Windows 7 64-bit rarely has this issue on UEFI/Legacy MBs, but it could still happen when the disk gets moved from port to port, especially if moving from SATA to PCIe/RAID).
9. Once it boots into the login screen, enjoy!
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