JJClements.co.uk » install http://www.jjclements.co.uk Clem's Technical Blog Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:16:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows 7 clean installation using upgrade disc 0xC004F061 http://www.jjclements.co.uk/2010/04/15/windows-7-clean-installation-using-upgrade-disc-0xc004f061/ http://www.jjclements.co.uk/2010/04/15/windows-7-clean-installation-using-upgrade-disc-0xc004f061/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:40:07 +0000 James Clements http://www.jjclements.co.uk/?p=862 When I received my Windows 7 upgrade media for a new HP laptop I wanted to perform a clean install of the OS. During the installation process, I was able to perform a clean install using the Custom (advanced) option when prompted for the 'type of installation' to proceed with.

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Selecting the Custom (advanced) option allowed me to remove existing partitions and install Windows 7 as I would have expected to out of the box, instead of having to perform a Vista to Windows 7 upgrade. After successful installation of the OS I installed the remaining drivers and then tried to activate. During the activation process I was prompted with an error.

The following failure occurred while trying to use the product key:

Code:
0xC004F061

Description:
The Software Licensing Service determined that this specified product key can only be used for upgrading, not for clean installations.

To activate Windows 7 after I used the upgrade disc to perform a clean installation I changed one registry key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE

Value: MediaBootInstall= 1 changed to 0

After modifying the registry key I was able to activate successfully.

Download the regkey change - HERE

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