Do you know where else to download it? Nobody can help you unless they have a copy to also test out your problem.
I bought the DVDs, The files are pretty large. One of DVDs is over 7 gigs and the other one is 4 gigs+.
I think the problem is that you have a HP TouchSmart tx2z-1000 CTO Notebook which doesnt seem to be on the list of Eligible Models I think that it probabaly came with Vista Home Basic or Vista Starter Edition look at this table for upgrade process 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium > 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium > 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit Windows Vista Business > 32-bit Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Windows Vista Business > 64-bit Windows 7 Professional 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate > 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate > 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate for it to upgrade You log starts off Code: [16:24:46.89] Check if Upgrading Win 7 is required. ---------------------------------------- [16:24:46.91] Current Edition is [HomeBasic]... [16:24:46.91] Required [Starter]. Don't need to upgrade... [16:24:46.93] Required [Starter] ... [16:24:51.11] Required [Starter] Edition. But, OS is not [Starter]... [16:24:51.12] Upgrading OS edition might have some problem... then near the end it says Code: [16:25:26.41] There was no Factory Update... it seems that your laptop doesnt meet the requirements
I think he want to make some changes to the CD/DVD or fix the Are you sure your SLIC is 2.1? Did you check with SLIC Toolkit? Of course Recovery DVD is big size, thats why HP has to MAIL them.. it would overwhelm their servers if everyone was to download them.
Thanks for your feedback. My notebook came with Vista home Premium 64 bit. And my notebook also meets the requirement. I have confirmed at the HP site. I think the problem is that I bought it before the start time to be eligible for the windows upgrade option.
You are right. I would like to either edit the DVD initialization/installation txt file or edit the bios/flash to allow me use the restore dvd. It is the same exact spec, looks like HP, for the notebooks that comes pre-loaded with Windows 7, updated the bios and the also the restore DVD to do a check for existing OS, ie "Error found: You have set Vista Flag on a Win 7 image, please use EEPROM to set ~OS SKU~ value = 2 "
I ordered windows 7 recovery disks for my HP tx2z because avarto is taking forever to send out upgrade disks and I like the HP branding that comes with the notebook. I ran into the same problem you describe, but got around it by editing some configuration files using a bootable linux cd (ubuntu 9.10). After looking into it, I'm pretty disappointed with HP. I ordered the windows 7 professional recovery disk for the HP-tx2z, and on the surface it looks like that's what I got, however the disks are really just a rebranding of the Pavilion dv7 notebook recovery disk. Also, its not even windows 7 professional, but windows 7 home basic. None of the fancy things (finger swipe gestures or even the buttons on the side of the monitor) work in the installation HP provides. People who purchased a tx2z with windows 7 are going to be very surprised when they use their recovery disks and get back a crippled system. Anyway, if you really want to try the recovery disks, you'll need to do the following: 1) Download and burn .iso of bootable linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10) 2) Install Windows 7 recovery image and proceed until it fails with the error message you showed. 3) Boot laptop from linux CD 4) There will be two partitions on your hard drive. one is called 'SDV' and the other isn't labelled, but is ~62GB. You'll need to edit files in both of these partitions. 5) 62GB partition - find and remove CTOERROR.FLG 6) 62GB partition - find and edit System.sav\bbv\ChkLicense.vbs : At the bottom of the file there is an IF..ELSE statement. Just copy the first conditional and paste it above the IF..ELSE statement. Code: wscript.echo "Licensed" & vbCrLF WScript.Quit(0) if bLicensed=1 then wscript.echo "Licensed" & vbCrLF WScript.Quit(0) else wscript.echo "Not Licensed" & vbCrLF ' call CreateErrorFlagFile() WScript.Quit(1) end if 7) 62GB partition - find and edit System.sav\Util\TDCTWKs\ChkLicense.vbs : This is just another copy of the first ChkLicense.vbs above. Do the same thing here as above. 8) SDV partition - find and edit TOOL\CheckCTO.cmd : search for and remove all instances of 'NOT' in the file. 9) Reboot and let windows 7 install drivers and finish the first boot process. It takes an extremely long time. I just let it run over night. 10) Enjoy poorly supported windows 7 installation for tx2z. If you go through the process and find that you got what you ordered from HP, let me know. Maybe they just screwed up my order.
Thank you very much, this is what I was looking for. I have not tried it, but will and will update you. I will tell you upfront that, it is Windows 7 Basic too from the error files. But I will upgrade and let you know. Thanks again for your help. If and when you get the upgrade disk, please let me know.
You can just dump the eeprom using the EEPROM tool and then chage the byte from 1 to 2 using a hex editor and then rewrite using the eeprom tool. If you are not sure which byte to change simply dump it twice, once with the OS SKU set to 0 and then a second time with it set to one and run a diff on the two files. I've tested this and it works perfectly.
Also the reason it may be installing Win 7 Home Basic is because of your EEPROM settings. It is probably set to Home Basic (as this is the default setting). You need to change this using the EEPROM tool also.
Thanks very much, you guys are great. The EEPROM Tool I use, looks like one that only allows you access to the bios to change pre-define values. I did not see an option to dump. Do you know where I can get one that allows me to dump? Please also keep in mind that I am kinda new to this. But thank you so much .
When I access the bios using the eeprom tool, there was an option to change the Windows 7 version. It had 4 options and I selected Ultimate, but since I didn't successfully installed, I am unable to confirm .