I came across a dual core laptop with 4 gig of memory that booted up fine but the windows 7 was corrupt and it was missing a few keys (needs a keyboard). I thought I could reload windows off the partition on the hard drive but no dice, it wasn't there. Now I had a problem. Nice working laptop that needs windows but I don't have a copy of windows.
I thought it might be worth calling Microsoft to see if I could get a disk to re-install windows. It did have the sticker on the bottom. What I found talking to tech support really surprised me.
I didn't need the disk. I can legally download and ISO of windows 7 which would work for 30 days and just use the key on the bottom to activate the copy. The tech also said legal ISOs of XP and Vista were also available. This seems to be a great LEGAL way to re-install and OS on a computer that was wiped.
New info to me so I thought I would pass it along............
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