Both of my Dell laptops didn come with media ... Thats the way i guess to keep price low ...<br><br>On Monday, January 26, 2015, Paul Cartwright <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">not when they can charge for them....<br>
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the below link is great for the media, but you will still need your<br>
KEY/Serial to activate it..<br>
All these Windows 7 ISO’s come with SP1 integrated in them and have a 30<br>
day trial period. Once installed, you can use your Original windows 7<br>
key to activate your windows 7 installation.<br>
OEM doesn't need that..<br>
> Neat resource for the retail media. Would be nice if OEM vendors did<br>
> the same thing with their images.<br>
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> On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Boris Borisov <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'bugyatl@gmail.com')">bugyatl@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'bugyatl@gmail.com')">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/" target="_blank">http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/</a><br>
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>> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Paul Cartwright <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'pbcartwright@gmail.com')">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'pbcartwright@gmail.com')">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 01/26/2015 12:17 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:<br>
>> > I missed the bit about the third drive. Yes, if /dev/sda and<br>
>> the old<br>
>> > drive can be completed unmounted in your current booted system, no<br>
>> > reason not to do it as you just described.<br>
>> the sequence is.. I had Windows 7 on the original drive. Added linux,<br>
>> ran out of space... added a second drive, more linux partitions,<br>
>> started<br>
>> booting off of the 2nd drive. replaced the original sda with with NEW<br>
>> 3TB drive.. tried to clonzilla windows, it puked.. copied all the old<br>
>> windows files in, it still puked. still booting linux on sdb, so<br>
>> sda is<br>
>> pretty much spare. I can plug in the original drive via USB so I can<br>
>> actually have all 3 drives available. I did that to copy the windows<br>
>> partition back & forth..<br>
>> so I think dd might work... let me think about that:)<br>
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