Locked Win 7 activation on UEFI

Proteus · Jan 31, 2021

OK genius minds out there. I have searched for 2 days to find a solution to no avail. Best friend has a mini-NASA setup at his house, and now runs everything UEFI, both windows & linux. Problem is, most of his "necessary" softwares are for win 7, and DAZ wont activate a UEFI install. I have read and tried a few of the solutions on my own real hardware with no success.

Im told it CAN be done, but so far NO results. What am I missing here? Tried every version of DAZ and a few KMSPICO and an older MSToolkit as well as a digital Medicines for laughs.

Person who supplies me with the WORKING fix gets my DEEPEST gratitude and a big sloppy virtual kiss/hug!

EDIT: Friend is a computer genius who programs in basically every language since Pascal for DOS. He is also a professional photographer and has invested a a TON into software/utils for his profession. Like some hospitals still use XP as their OS (because it still rocks in certain areas) he uses Win7 for his photography. Anywho, just wanted to let you know this guy is no n00b and in HIS (many) areas runs circles around me.

choli · Jan 31, 2021

Care to elaborate the complete specification of his mini-NASA setup?
I couldn't find its specs from the internet.

Skip1 · Jan 31, 2021

Might have found something, PM'ing you

(I'm holding you to the virtual hug....

)

Alessia_Amelia · Jan 31, 2021

Sent you a PM with possible help sweetheart.

Imran Hashmi · Jan 31, 2021

@00Proteus00 Drive carefully bro, you are now sweetheart

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Cyler · Jan 31, 2021

Before I start, and I may be wrong or simply not get it, but I don't understand this "I will PM you" mentality. The problem that @00Proteus00 has might also affect other members now or in the future which by reading this thread won't get the desired solution and so... what's the point then? All we will do is force people to make more posts/threads/pm with "share with me bro" messages and... you can guess the rest.

As for the problem: There are some solutions with mini USB partitioned disks (1 GB is more than enough) in MBR to boot enough of the win 7 OS boot files while having the rest of the OS system in a GPT disk etc, I'm sure you have seen those.

Why tho make life complicated?
My suggestion would be a LOT simpler. Install win 7 enterprise which is the exact same as ultimate but only aimed for corporate use.

See the problem you face is that Windows ultimate doesn't support volume license as it's an OEM/Home product and that's why KMS doesn't work, and on the other hand, DAZ needs to insert the SLIC (System Licensed Internal Code) before windows starts, essentially modifying part of bios to make the PC appear as OEM with the license tied to the mobo. That will work with old BIOSes (MBR) but not with UEFI due to the higher protection mechanisms of the bios which prohibit external modifications (the above is in layman's terms as the subject is a bit more complex).

Windows 7 Enterprise supports Volume license as it's a corporate product and so it will happily work on a UEFI system without tricks and hacks etc by simply using any KMS tool you want.

So my suggestion is to install Win 7 Ent. and do a small test too. Dont tell your friend right away and see if he will even notice it without looking at the tags. Blind tests are the best

Hope it helped my friend.

Alessia_Amelia · Jan 31, 2021

Was following the guidelines in the rules about posting third party links that's all @Cyler. Sorry if this seemed to be rude. It was unintentional and only to help.

Skip1 · Jan 31, 2021

Agree with all the above @Cyler, only reason I PM'd @00Proteus00 is because it includes a tool that I am not capable or comfortable posting here for the reason I cannot provide support if others have questions. Otherwise on board with this mentality and viewpoint 100% .

Cyler · Jan 31, 2021

Alessia_Amelia said:
Was following the guidelines in the rules about posting third party links that's all @Cyler. Sorry if this seemed to be rude. It was unintentional and only to help.

Skip1 said:
Agree with all the above @Cyler, only reason I PM'd @00Proteus00 is because it includes a tool that I am not capable or comfortable posting here for the reason I cannot provide support if others have questions. Otherwise on board with this mentality and viewpoint 100% .

It wasn't rude at all, and I know you both were trying to help and I'm grateful for that but I think PMing nullifies the point of a forum which is to share info.
If a link is the only reason, then you can use the [icode] tag , for example www.google.com

As for the case that we want to share something privately, be that a file or whatever and for any reason, I think in general there are 2 ways to go about it. Either we use the PM but don't mention it in the thread (What's the point, the Op will see the Pm anyway) or if one is to comment, upload the file and warn users about the potential risks.

Please don't think my comment is personally singling any of you out, it was more of an observation about the behavior in general.

Daddo · Jan 31, 2021

Windows 7 Loader eXtreme Edition 3.503 Stable

lordofheaven · Jan 31, 2021

to activate Windows 7 under UEFI or for Hard disk in GPT: use: RemoveWat 2.2.6 + RemoveWatermark v0.8

it works perfectly.

SUPERPIERRE · Jan 31, 2021

I have done this before downgrading for a customer or as he put it upgrading from a brand new laptop running Windows 10......

However after an update, the system took 20+ minutes to boot and went to a black screen......

and Yes RemoveWat is the only program that I have come across in my collection to activate Windows.

choli · Jan 31, 2021

Cyler said:
It wasn't rude at all, and I know you both were trying to help and I'm grateful for that but I think PMing nullifies the point of a forum which is to share info.
If a link is the only reason, then you can use the [icode] tag , for example www.google.com

As for the case that we want to share something privately, be that a file or whatever and for any reason, I think in general there are 2 ways to go about it. Either we use the PM but don't mention it in the thread (What's the point, the Op will see the Pm anyway) or if one is to comment, upload the file and warn users about the potential risks.

Please don't think my comment is personally singling any of you out, it was more of an observation about the behavior in general.

OOT...
Unfortunately, as a user here, we're hot wired to following the rules.

-Do not post outside torrent links & other outside links plus direct download links on Threads to help user.
Send that link through PM (personal message) and post only this on thread ''Pm sent with link''