Find a torrent that has a full set with OS and keygen. If you already have the win7 key, the ISO will boot and install. I used this to deal with drive upgrade and trying to transfer a boot camp partition.
clay On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: > You should be able to find the various isos somewhere to make a boot disc or > install disc or whatever for whatever flavor you want, then just use your > valid code to make M$FT happy. I did that on an old laptop with WinXPME, > worked fine. > > --R > > On 3/16/12 5:57 PM, Hendrik & Fay wrote: >> The problem is that I don't have a boot able registered copy of winXP or 7, >> I own 4 versions of winpose, 95, 98, XPsp2 and now win7 but they are pre >> installed into the puters and the sys recovery discs won't work in VB. >> This is something of an annoyance but not entirely unexpected from MS, I >> have boot able 95 and 98 discs but the bastards are like banks, 'encourage' >> you to go to email statements, so you have to carry the cost of printing the >> statements, same with MS: "here is you're new OS and if you want to recover >> it at any stage, you have to make your own stinking discs" and in XP the >> turds only allow you to make one copy. >> Anyway, I found an iso of a win7 and got it to install and run in VB but it >> seems to be a 30 day trial version and as such it will be easier for me to >> just boot into 'my' XP and use quickbooks there, which is really the only >> reason I need wincrap, well I also have to log into the tax department to >> tell them what I have been up to every 3 months. >> I tried to install quickbooks via WINE but that is just about impossible for >> people who know what they are doing, so I have got no chance. >> Twas more of an 'see if I can do it exercise', rather than something I have >> to do, Fay doesn't understand that and is a bit mad at me cause I have >> bashing away at this for a couple of days. The mountain was there to be >> climbed and I fell off it, a couple of hundred meters from the top. >> However on a brighter side, Ubuntu 11.10 seems to be working pretty well for >> now, until I paste something stupid into the terminal. >> >> Hendrik >> who is pretending to know stuff about operating systems >> >> On 15/03/12 10:17, Dan Penoff wrote: >>> I use VirtualBox both on my Macs and my work PC. I have several OS' >>> running on each without any issues. >>> >>> What's the problem you're having? >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Fmiser wrote: >>> >>>>> Hendrik& Fay wrote: >>>>> Hendrik >>>>> who is trying to get virtualbox up and running >>>> Are your having difficulty with VirtualBox? Or the guest OS? >>>> My experience with it has been quite good. USB, serial, >>>> ethernet, and all software I've tried to use work well in a MS >>>> Win guest on my Linux host. >>>> >>>> I'm even doing some squirrelly things with networking. >>>> >>>> -- Philip >>>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
