Windows 10: i have already installed win ten from iso file but it wont let me register using my win 7...

my system use to run win 7 pro so i installed win 10 pro but it says my version is not genuine and will not accept my product key from win 7 pro, my pc is totally compatible been running win 10 for three months just never got around to activating it. please tell me if i have to reinstall win 7 first , then upgrade to 10 to be able to get to 11 or if i should just take the plunge and jump over to linex distros, really tired of constantly having to replace windows after barely figuring out where you hid everything i use to know were it was all at ! sucks having to go hunting for Easter eggs at

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Is it still possible to find a Win 7 install .ISO?

Sure beat the tool from Microsoft! I'm guessing it was something todo with Win 10

I now have Win 7 Pro x64 Sp1 installed! I even activated it with what I thought was and OEM key

I couldn't have done this on Win 10 alone. The USB 3.0 drivers I found had .SYS files and Windows 10 would NOT let me copy them. Is there a setting for that somewhere? I couldn't boot with any of the slipstream tools @W1zzard or @Muaadib suggested, it just would not load the drivers!

What I did was make a folder on the target hard drive with the USB 3.0 drivers. After a few tries, it finally read the drivers after browsing to the HDD and continued with the install. During the install, I even wiped the partition on the HDD, drivers were already in memory, so it continued no problem.

God what a painful day. Thanks all...

 

Is it still possible to find a Win 7 install .ISO?

You managed to work it out: congratz!

I had many issues when i moved to Ryzen 5 and could not get Win 7 to install properly because of USB not being detected but i fixed it ... by removing Win 7 ... permanently ...

Now using Ubuntu.

 

Is it still possible to find a Win 7 install .ISO?

Specifically looking for Win 7 Pro x64 OEM .ISO... and preferably with service pack(s).

Have key and older .ISO but windows keep looking for a CD/DVD driver when I start the first part of the install process, and won't let me go any further. I'm booting and installing from USB, no CD/DVD is installed. This is on a laptop, and I'm not going to activate it, just need to install for the 30 day trial and some testing I'm doing. TIA