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Clean installing Windows 7 OEM on ProBook 6460b


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Hi,

I am currently trying to configure a set of HP ProBook 6460b laptops for deployment on a network that came pre-installed with Windows 7 Professional 32-bit from HP. There is no volume license for Windows currently held by the company, hence the intention is to use the Windows licenses bundled with the machines.

In order to get the best results, I am attempting to build a clean install image for the machines, with the software and drivers that will be used on them. However the licensing schema that is used for the machines is not one I am familiar with, and it is preventing me from registering a product key and activating the clean install image (created using a separate Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installation disc). The ProBook machines all have the same product key that forms part of a 32-bit image stored on the system recovery partition, but don't include any Windows 7 media - I am assuming this is some kind of licensing scheme used by large OEMs but it isn't one I recognise. The other reason for building a clean image, besides minimising the amount of unneeded software on the machines, is that they are likely to be upgraded to >= 4GB RAM, which would mean using 32-bit Windows was no longer an option.

Does anyone have any ideas of how this can be configured successfully (within the terms of the license agreement)?

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