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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days?
I have an XP laptop that isn't worth fixing, that won't boot. It has two hard disk drives though (big Dell XPS gaming thing). It has my taxes on it from last year that I need to suck into Turbotax. All I want to do is pop in a spare hard drive and boot off that spare hard drive and then grab the tax records and put them onto USB flash stick. But I don't have any Windows boot media. My plan is this: 1. Remove the old XP boot hard drive (which is where the taxes are). 2. Put in a formatted hard drive (temporarily yanked off another laptop). 3. Install Windows 10 temporary (if that exists) on the new hard drive. 4. Boot off of Windows 10 (to test that the computer problem is solved. Then, I pull out the second hard drive and put the original (bad xp) boot drive in its place, because the tax records are on that (old boot xp) drive. Windows 10 should access that old boot xp drive for long enough for me to get the taxes off it. The plan seems sound (to me) but my question is whether or not I can get a temporary copy of Windows that is legitimate. Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
Jonas Schneider wrote:
Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days? I have an XP laptop that isn't worth fixing, that won't boot. It has two hard disk drives though (big Dell XPS gaming thing). It has my taxes on it from last year that I need to suck into Turbotax. All I want to do is pop in a spare hard drive and boot off that spare hard drive and then grab the tax records and put them onto USB flash stick. But I don't have any Windows boot media. My plan is this: 1. Remove the old XP boot hard drive (which is where the taxes are). 2. Put in a formatted hard drive (temporarily yanked off another laptop). 3. Install Windows 10 temporary (if that exists) on the new hard drive. 4. Boot off of Windows 10 (to test that the computer problem is solved. Then, I pull out the second hard drive and put the original (bad xp) boot drive in its place, because the tax records are on that (old boot xp) drive. Windows 10 should access that old boot xp drive for long enough for me to get the taxes off it. The plan seems sound (to me) but my question is whether or not I can get a temporary copy of Windows that is legitimate. Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? How about booting from a Linux live CD or a rescue CD and copy the files to usb? |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
Jonas Schneider wrote:
Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days? I have an XP laptop that isn't worth fixing, that won't boot. It has two hard disk drives though (big Dell XPS gaming thing). It has my taxes on it from last year that I need to suck into Turbotax. All I want to do is pop in a spare hard drive and boot off that spare hard drive and then grab the tax records and put them onto USB flash stick. But I don't have any Windows boot media. My plan is this: 1. Remove the old XP boot hard drive (which is where the taxes are). 2. Put in a formatted hard drive (temporarily yanked off another laptop). 3. Install Windows 10 temporary (if that exists) on the new hard drive. 4. Boot off of Windows 10 (to test that the computer problem is solved. Then, I pull out the second hard drive and put the original (bad xp) boot drive in its place, because the tax records are on that (old boot xp) drive. Windows 10 should access that old boot xp drive for long enough for me to get the taxes off it. The plan seems sound (to me) but my question is whether or not I can get a temporary copy of Windows that is legitimate. Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? If you install a Windows OS, normally it will run for 30 days without activation. The license key box has a "Skip" option on some OSes. The OSes can be "picky" about hardware instruction set. This means your WinXP era laptop is useless with respect to installing Win10. The Win10 initial install step will do a CPU instruction set check, and *reject* the computer. For example, only the very last version of P4 made (2MB cache), that is the oldest CPU supported by Win10. Since those are obscure, you could pretend for the sake of argument, that P4 era computers are useless for the task. A Core or Core2 CPU might be a comfortable minimum for Win10. So let's make a table: Media? Skip Special Comment License? CPU? WinXP No Yes NA Vista No Yes NA (32 or 64) Win7 (Heidoc) Yes NA (32 or 64) Win8 No?? Install-Only key ?? (32 or 64) [You would install 8.1 anyway] Win8.1 (Heidoc) Install-Only key NX,PAE,SSE2,CX16,LAHF,PrefetchW Win10 Available No (you have no NX,PAE,SSE2,CX16,LAHF,PrefetchW qualifying OS) Win8/8.1 Install-only keys (good for 30 days only...). This helps Windows 8 become a "Skip" license style OS, like it was as convenient as installing Win7. Windows 8.0 Pro: XKY4K-2NRWR-8F6P2-448RF-CRYQH Windows 8.0 Co FB4WR-32NVD-4RW79-XQFWH-CYQG3 Windows 8.1 Pro: XHQ8N-C3MCJ-RQXB6-WCHYG-C9WKB Windows 8.1 Co 334NH-RXG76-64THK-C7CKG-D3VPT ******* From practical considerations, you would install Windows 7, then use the "Skip" or "Next" button at license key entry time. You will need drivers for Windows 7. If the motherboard BIOS is in Compatible IDE or AHCI mode, you can probably get an image on the screen. A Win7 video driver would help. Many of the other drivers you could ignore for the purpose of this (limited) situation. Where will the output go ? Printer ? Printer driver ? Stored on USB stick ? (In-box driver) Internet ? (Need network driver for Win7) The Heidoc tool generates a URL for downloading the OS. The download link is valid for 24 hours only. Every time you do this, a folder is created on a Microsoft server, with the ISO in it. The Heidoc tool has a "Copy to clipboard" button. You can move the URL to Notepad and save it there, then drive somewhere and do the download. Or, you could run the Heidoc web page from the library computer, and paste the URL into the browser and download. The download comes from Microsoft, not from Heidoc. All that the Heidoc tool does, is forge a request to Techbench, to have an ISO image staged for your convenience. It is in every way, a valid ISO image, and comes from Microsoft. Here are your play tools. Get a copy of Win7 x32. Home Premium should be good enough: https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool Heidoc -- "Copy to Clipboard" Browser (Paste into URL bar) Download and save the ISO9660 file. Burn to DVD. Take both Heidoc EXE files to the library with you. In case the library computer doesn't have the very latest .NET, you can use the "legacy" compiled version instead, which will run on more computers (WinXP+). ******* Other options include these. Vista SP2 is usable for 30 days, but "not a keeper". While I have these links in my notes file, they're probably erased by now, by the "DMCA police". I cannot guarantee these links are still good. Only the first one is of use to you, as it is the 32-bit version, and most likely to work on your crusty CPU. https://ia801708.us.archive.org/26/i...dvd_342266.iso Windows Vista with SP2 32-bit SHA1: 25AD9A776503E6A583BEC07879DBCC5DFD20CD6E Size: 3093 MB (3.02 GB) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9WC...rive_web&pli=1 en_windows_vista_sp2_x64_dvd_342267.iso Windows Vista with SP2 64-bit SHA1: AAEE3C04533899F9F8C4AE0C4250EF5FAFBE29A3 Size: 3683 MB (3.59 GB) HTH, Paul |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
On 13/03/2017 02:08, Jonas Schneider wrote:
Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? 90 days free evaluation from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise You have plenty of time to do your taxes assuming you are well organised like me with all your documents very handy to find. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
In message , pjp
writes: In article , says... Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days? I have an XP laptop that isn't worth fixing, that won't boot. It has two hard disk drives though (big Dell XPS gaming thing). It has my taxes on it from last year that I need to suck into Turbotax. All I want to do is pop in a spare hard drive and boot off that spare hard drive and then grab the tax records and put them onto USB flash stick. But I don't have any Windows boot media. My plan is this: 1. Remove the old XP boot hard drive (which is where the taxes are). 2. Put in a formatted hard drive (temporarily yanked off another laptop). You will ruin the other laptop if you do this. (Well, corrupt the HD anyway.) 3. Install Windows 10 temporary (if that exists) on the new hard drive. 4. Boot off of Windows 10 (to test that the computer problem is solved. Then, I pull out the second hard drive and put the original (bad xp) boot drive in its place, because the tax records are on that (old boot xp) drive. Windows 10 should access that old boot xp drive for long enough for me to get the taxes off it. The plan seems sound (to me) but my question is whether or not I can get a temporary copy of Windows that is legitimate. Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? Why not just pop the drive into a cheap usb enclosure and connect it to the pc you wish to copy the files to? Cheap, easy and you're left with an external hard disk to use as you wish P.S. Insure it's correct type for existing hard disk e.g. IDE or SATA and note that you can still buy enclosures do either rather than just the one type. My thoughts exactly: if you're willing to move drives around, and all you want is to access _files_ on the old disc, then by far the simplest way to do so is to access it - the disc - from another computer. There are about three ways to do that: either using an external housing (which will contain some electronics), using a "USB to EIDE (or SATA) cable" (which, though it appears to be just a cable, will also contain some electronics), or using an external "dock" - these are bases into which you can plug a drive (the one I have has slots for (E)IDE and SATA, also lots of memory card types). All of these connect by USB (possibly other ways too, but USB is the commonest), and are available for peanuts, at least the external housing and "cable" are. A fourth way would be to connect the drive directly to another computer that has a spare EIDE/SATA (as appropriate) connector, but I'd be wary of doing so with a disc that has an OS on it (assuming it _is_ the one that does), as there's a small chance it would confuse the booting of that computer. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf They don't seem to want to blind me with science nor to impress me with their superior intellect, but just to share their enthusiasm for their subject. (Appreciative) contributor to Radio Times letters page, 26 July-1 August 2014 |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:16:20 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote in Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? How about booting from a Linux live CD or a rescue CD and copy the files to usb? +1 -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
On 3/13/2017 12:41 AM, pjp wrote:
In article , says... Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? Why not just pop the drive into a cheap usb enclosure and connect it to the pc you wish to copy the files to? Cheap, easy and you're left with an external hard disk to use as you wish P.S. Insure it's correct type for existing hard disk e.g. IDE or SATA and note that you can still buy enclosures do either rather than just the one type. If time is a problem April 15th,I agree. If you do what you propose with the temporary OS, you will spend 10 X the time that it would take to put the old drive in a USB enclosure, and copy of your tax data, and any thing else you want. You can order the USB enclosure or buy one at Office Max, Staples and the like. |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
In message , Jonas Schneider
writes Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days? As others have suggested: https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=usb+ide+sata+adapter&* (or similar wherever you are). A 2.5" drive normally runs off the USB power, and doesn't need a separate power supply. A 3.5" drive needs an adapter with a separate 5V / 12V supply. -- Ian |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:38:26 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote: On 3/13/2017 12:41 AM, pjp wrote: In article , says... Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? Why not just pop the drive into a cheap usb enclosure and connect it to the pc you wish to copy the files to? Cheap, easy and you're left with an external hard disk to use as you wish P.S. Insure it's correct type for existing hard disk e.g. IDE or SATA and note that you can still buy enclosures do either rather than just the one type. If time is a problem April 15th,I agree. snip I think you mean April 18th. We get a few extra days this year. |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
On 03/12/2017 11:41 PM, pjp wrote:
[snip] Why not just pop the drive into a cheap usb enclosure and connect it to the pc you wish to copy the files to? Cheap, easy and you're left with an external hard disk to use as you wish P.S. Insure it's correct type for existing hard disk e.g. IDE or SATA and note that you can still buy enclosures do either rather than just the one type. You don't need an enclosure for the 5 minutes or so it takes to copy a file. You could use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Cable-A...OV/ref=sr_1_12 -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Access denied. Thought you could get in?" |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:16:20 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Jonas Schneider wrote: Is there a legit way to get Windows 10 temporarily for a few days? I have an XP laptop that isn't worth fixing, that won't boot. It has two hard disk drives though (big Dell XPS gaming thing). It has my taxes on it from last year that I need to suck into Turbotax. All I want to do is pop in a spare hard drive and boot off that spare hard drive and then grab the tax records and put them onto USB flash stick. But I don't have any Windows boot media. My plan is this: 1. Remove the old XP boot hard drive (which is where the taxes are). 2. Put in a formatted hard drive (temporarily yanked off another laptop). 3. Install Windows 10 temporary (if that exists) on the new hard drive. 4. Boot off of Windows 10 (to test that the computer problem is solved. Then, I pull out the second hard drive and put the original (bad xp) boot drive in its place, because the tax records are on that (old boot xp) drive. Windows 10 should access that old boot xp drive for long enough for me to get the taxes off it. The plan seems sound (to me) but my question is whether or not I can get a temporary copy of Windows that is legitimate. Is there a legitimate temporary Windows 10 method that will work for me? How about booting from a Linux live CD or a rescue CD and copy the files to usb? +1 there. I would have done that without thinking twice. Use an "easy" distro, if it's not online, even an old Ubuntu 10.4 would suffice (and fit nicely on a CD), and it looks and behaves sufficiently like XP for the OP to master it in a few minutes. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:07:11 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 03/12/2017 11:41 PM, pjp wrote: [snip] Why not just pop the drive into a cheap usb enclosure and connect it to the pc you wish to copy the files to? Cheap, easy and you're left with an external hard disk to use as you wish P.S. Insure it's correct type for existing hard disk e.g. IDE or SATA and note that you can still buy enclosures do either rather than just the one type. You don't need an enclosure for the 5 minutes or so it takes to copy a file. You could use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Cable-A...OV/ref=sr_1_12 Why buy something when all he needs is a Linux live system, like ubuntu 10 ? There you go: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/relea...sktop-i386.iso 694MB. Burn it to a CD, boot the old computer with it. Choose "test, or "live", whatever, NOT "install". Unless the MB is fried, you will be able to copy the contents of the HD to a USB. Should take you 20 minutes or so. But WhyTF don't you keep a backup to a DVD (NEVER use "the cloud" ? Not only of the tax data, but EVERYTHING important ? HDs always die, eventually. The DVD will too, eventually. But look at the bright side, you will be long gone by then ... []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10temporary OS?
On 3/13/2017 10:10 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:38:26 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: On 3/13/2017 12:41 AM, pjp wrote: I think you mean April 18th. We get a few extra days this year. They are now with the CPA so it is up to her. ;-) |
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Want to do taxes, computer won't boot, is there a Windows 10 temporary OS?
In message , Shadow
writes On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:07:11 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: You don't need an enclosure for the 5 minutes or so it takes to copy a file. You could use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Cable-A...p/B01N4VUIOV/r ef=sr_1_12 Why buy something when all he needs is a Linux live system, like ubuntu 10 ? Well, those adapters come in extremely handy, and it's rather convenient to have one 'about your person' for future use. I now have several. That one on Amazon does look rather expensive - but you do get a complete set of adapter leads. Be aware that the power supply - needed for 3.5" drives - can run pretty hot (well, mine do), and it's best to ensure that there is plenty of airflow around them. -- Ian |
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