PeggieGreg
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Windows 7 boot disk
Hi Guys,
I need to reload a few PC's and I need a windows 7 boot disk (if one is available). I know that you can purchase one, but its just an install file so why are they so hard to get hold off.
not looking for a pirate copy, just need a genuine windows 7 professional 64bit installer to use genuine windows 7 keys with.
All comments welcome.
I need to reload a few PC's and I need a windows 7 boot disk (if one is available). I know that you can purchase one, but its just an install file so why are they so hard to get hold off.
not looking for a pirate copy, just need a genuine windows 7 professional 64bit installer to use genuine windows 7 keys with.
All comments welcome.
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so I can use this boot disk to load windows 7 from scratch?
peggiegreg--
I am not sure what you mean by "load".
If you use a Win 7 installation disk, you can install Win 7 from scratch.
However, now you are not using the disk as a boot disk ("a disk that may allow you to boot into a PC that has problems booting"), but rather as an operating system installation disk.
A "boot disk" (in the old meaning of the word) will not be able to install Win 7. But it will allow you to load the operating system as far as the System Recovery window.
Did you read the link I provided earlier?
What are you trying to do?
I am not sure what you mean by "load".
If you use a Win 7 installation disk, you can install Win 7 from scratch.
However, now you are not using the disk as a boot disk ("a disk that may allow you to boot into a PC that has problems booting"), but rather as an operating system installation disk.
A "boot disk" (in the old meaning of the word) will not be able to install Win 7. But it will allow you to load the operating system as far as the System Recovery window.
Did you read the link I provided earlier?
What are you trying to do?
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you can download the ISO here : http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/
Any Win 7 Installation disk will serve as a "boot disk"--a disk that may allow you to boot into a PC that has problems booting.
In Win 7 you can make a System Repair disk
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-boot-disk-startup-disk#1TC=windows-7
If you have no PC that functions well enough to make the Win 7 disk, perhaps a friend will do it for you.