
Officially you should look into volume licensing…Ĭloning and Image wise it would be fine for a Windows 10 OEM license and Windows 10 install as it will automatically recognise the system as a Windows 10 Device and reactivate it (taking the unique 25 digit product key from the UEFI BIOS in each system). Have you run into this before? Can you offer any help? I'm stumped. Clicking on OK at this point just repeated the second part of the process over again in a loop. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation. But then another error popped up saying "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. " When I clicked on the OK button, the machine rebooted, looked like it was continuing the installation process. The error was detected while processing settings for component. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. After starting the installation process and following the first restart the following error message pops up: "Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass. I downloaded the ISO from Digital River, converted it to USB using Rufus. I have also been unable to get media ordered from Dell, and even if I could, my COA is faded, so I don't think I'd be able to activate it. Second, I've been following your instructions, I thought to the letter, but I've been unable to get a fresh installation of Win 7 on my Dell Inspiron N5010.

I totally agree with you that Dell's support has gone way down the tubes.

Philip, First of all, I want to thank you for all the great information you've put together and made available.
