[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 18:33:58 EST 2015


there WAS a small partition before Windows, that included the restore
files, but it isn't something you can make a CD of & boot it.. I wonder,
If I put those files in a partition & let Grub configure the drive,
would it see it?? seems to me NOT, since I know I lost that ability to
restore when I added grub.. That might be something the grub maintainers
could fix??
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> Typically there is a way for you to burn your own media from the
> installed system but you’re only allowed to do that once.
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> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Boris Borisov
> *Sent:* Monday, January 26, 2015 5:25 PM
> *To:* pbcartwright at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] help, windows 7 boot error
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> Both of my Dell laptops didn come with media ... Thats the way i guess
> to keep price low ...
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> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com
> <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> not when they can charge for them....
>
> the below link is great for the media, but you will still need your
> KEY/Serial to activate it..
> All these Windows 7 ISO’s come with SP1 integrated in them and have a 30
> day trial period. Once installed, you can use your Original windows 7
> key to activate your windows 7 installation.
> OEM doesn't need that..
> > Neat resource for the retail media. Would be nice if OEM vendors did
> > the same thing with their images.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>
> > <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com <javascript:;>>> wrote:
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> http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/
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> >> On Monday, January 26, 2015, Paul Cartwright
> <pbcartwright at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> >> <mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On 01/26/2015 12:17 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> >>     > I missed the bit about the third drive.  Yes, if /dev/sda and
> >>     the old
> >>     > drive can be completed unmounted in your current booted
> system, no
> >>     > reason not to do it as you just described.
> >>     the sequence is.. I had Windows 7 on the original drive. Added
> linux,
> >>     ran out of space... added a second drive, more linux partitions,
> >>     started
> >>     booting off of the 2nd drive. replaced the original sda with
> with NEW
> >>     3TB drive.. tried to clonzilla windows, it puked.. copied all
> the old
> >>     windows files in, it still puked. still booting linux on sdb, so
> >>     sda is
> >>     pretty much spare. I can plug in the original drive via USB so
> I can
> >>     actually have all 3 drives available. I did that to copy the
> windows
> >>     partition back & forth..
> >>     so I think dd might work... let me think about that:)
> >>
>
 

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Paul Cartwright
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