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Old March 17th 18, 01:58 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
HB[_3_]
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Default Toshiba W-7 went dark


"Paul" wrote in message
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HB wrote:
"Brian Gregory" wrote in message
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On 15/03/2018 07:22, HB wrote:
This is another concern of mine. I not only didn't get CDs with the
last 2
PCs, but no nag screens either. How do I make a bootable disc for them
or
one of these "images"? One is a Tablet w/W-10 and the other a Notebook
w/W-10. I have nothing in case one goes dark on me. The one before
these
is a HP laptop and I followed the directons and the info was copied
onto a
Thumbdrive. But can that $900 dollar PC boot from it? I have no idea.
There
was no info as to what to do with the thumbdrive if the computer
crashed.
https://support.toshiba.com/repair


In reading the site the PC is out of warranty and isn't W-8.

Scroll down to Get Recovery Media.


Recovery media is only stocked at OEMs for the
warranty period. If a laptop releases in 2010, you
expect the OEM to have media (discs in a bag) from 2010-2013.

Sometimes, bags of media are acquired by jobbers,
who sell the media for $50 a set. Until they run out.
From maybe 2013-2015, you might get the media from
a third party.

Other than that, there is Microsoft as a source of
installer DVDs. But the current download site requires
a *retail* license key. And the alternative sources
at the moment are broken. (DigitalRiver closed years
ago, and the Heidoc tool is broken on Win7 right now.)
That leaves torrents of MSDN discs as the last remaining
source. Which is fine, as long as you have SHA1 or SHA256
checksums for the resulting ISO files, to verify them with.


I have no idea what they are. The key number of the Toshiba is on the back.
I don't know if it's a retail key or not. It says product key.


If you have at least one retail license key for Windows 7,
you should be able to get any version of Win7 you want
as an ISO. In many cases, the ISO has multiple OS versions
on it, and by editing ei.cfg, you can even cause
them to show up as a menu choice. Since the many "versions"
of an OS are almost identical, you can overlay the images
on the DVD and store a ton of them.


Right over my head.


https://s13.postimg.org/pwmlcxkh3/mu...installers.gif

Paul



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