Windows 7 Recovery CD

Mark_R

My 5 year old Dell laptop has died and I cant find the original windows 7 home premium CD that came with the computer.  Went to the dell website and its not listed as being available to download and microsoft will not let me download it as it was bought it from an OEM.

Found the problem which is a corrupt classpnp.sys file, but I can't repair or replace it without the Windows 7 CD.  I have thought about plugging the 2.5inc drive into my desktop and copying over the file but is going to be a major ball ache to mate the drive.

I know this takes the piss a little, but does anyone have a windows 7 home premium CD (preferably a dell or OEM) disc that I can borrow for a day to repair the installation?

Gizmo

I had this with my dad's old dell a year or so back at the time i found this quick fix that might help

https://www.chrisnewland.com/solved-windows-7-hang-on-boot-classpnpsys-64

1) Power on the laptop
2) Press F12 key to enter the BIOS (or del or what ever you bio s prompt tell you to hit)
3) Go to "Advanced" menu
4) Go down to "System Config"
5) Change SATA Controller from "AHCI" to "Compatibility"
6) Press F10 to save and exit

I only have win7 pro disk's kicking around here but i think my bro has a 7in1 windows 7 home/prem/pro/oem disk he downloaded to recover when the win10 "recommend update" forced/rolled out and fucked his laptop up i'll see if he still has it

btw x86 or x64?

Mark_R

Thanks Gizmo, will give this a try and let you know how I get on.

Its x64.

Heartfeltdawn

Windows 7 Home Premium disc iso for you, sir. Simply download, burn to CD or a USB stick, and away you go. 

http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

Don't worry mods, it's legitimate and not piracy! 

Mark_R

Heartfeltdawn said:

Windows 7 Home Premium disc iso for you, sir. Simply download, burn to CD or a USB stick, and away you go. 

http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/

Don't worry mods, it's legitimate and not piracy! 

Thanks, installed a Torrent client and downloading it now.

Tried that @Gizmo and the laptop only has ACHI or IDE, tried both and no difference.  Damn thing, hopefully the win 7 ISO will do the job.