Hi,
On the machines I've seen with Vista IIRC the version details were on the license key sticker. I'm sure ours say "Business" somewhere on the sticker.
We bought 70 new Dell machines all of which had Vista Business install media which we don't use. As long as they didn't get thrown out in the huge clear out we had last week we should have CDs coming out of our ears.
Contact me off list if this would help.
Cheers,
Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:17:41
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
Subject: [Hampshire] [OT] Content might offend Penguins
Hi,
I am trying to recover a friends laptop hard disk.
It is a windows machine.
I have booted from a Linux CD and recovered all the files the user
wanted me to. Basically all their photos.
The laptop is a windows Vista laptop. It does not boot and using
smartctl I can see that is it about to fail. "Sector relocation count"
has moved from 10 to 15 just while I recovered the photos!
Now, I have the problem of re-installing Vista but the user does not
have the install media any more.
Does anyone know, from the Linux command prompt, how I can find out
which version of Vista they have installed?
The laptop has the Vista license key on the bottom, so I am figuring
that if I can obtain some install media, I could still use the key
that came with the laptop.
I just need the correct version of the install media. This might save
the user paying £150 for new media and license.
Kind Regards
James
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