<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Windows CDs are free download from M$ site. ( Actually is a different site that provides the hosting ) . You just need to download matching CD to your serial number. (Pro Home x86 64 and so on) and create USB stick.<br><br></div>Not that I encourage installing Windows :)<br><br></div>But I'm dealing with it because my boys play their games. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 01/25/2015 02:40 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:<br>
> There aren't many choices here. The best option would normally be to reinstall, but you can't. Or can you?<br>
><br>
> Is this a retail version of Windows? If so install it under KVM, and be done with it. No extra drivers are required, and a single qcow2 file can contain multiple snapshots which you can roll back to at any time.<br>
</span>I bought the Dell desktop with Windows 7 installed, but I never got a<br>
Windows CD.. and once I installed Linux, I lost the option of<br>
reinstalling Windows..<br>
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