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Hi there - does anyone know where i can obtain a legal copy of windows 7 home premium from? (a non fiddled with version)

 

I have been given a laptop under the DSA scheme (as a student at a university) and no media to flatten it and start again (without all the silly bits from the supplying company).

 

I have a legit windows 7 home prem OA license with the laptop.

 

The reason i need to do this is they have set the C drive to 80GB and my system files which have to sit on C drive wont fit. Not to mention that i cant dual boot it as needed for my programming course ect.

 

I'm fully aware that this will void my suppliers warranty on software and software support (which i told them i didn't need anyway).

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...I'm fully aware that this will void my suppliers warranty on software and software support (which i told them i didn't need anyway).

 

Perhaps you don't have to void your warranty if you don't want to:

 

Link: Welcome to SlimComputer - Slim Down Your New Computer!

 

Optimize your system with push-button controls that let you disable services, remove links & uninstall the software you never asked for.

 

I have used it with good results on XP and Windows 7.

mjs_mjs

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Cheers DaveP, but i really need to change the partitions which i guess is a bit beyond that software.

 

 

Is there not a restore partition ? if you can invoke a system recovery then you could reset it to factory defaults.

 

Yes - but they've stripped all Toshiba content (including removing me tosh bundled software) and installed a customized win 7 which silly partitions and then installed their own kinda backup thing which wipes it and starts again (back to their settings ect) I also don't trust the company to have a VNC software running on my pc that i cant disable for some strange reason.

 

As soon as i install linux grub i'm pretty sure most of there custom fiddling will break!

mjs_mjs

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run into another problem - no drivers for the CD drive, yet the version on there currently say that it's using normal MS drivers. (yes, strange as i'm booting from CD).

 

-and Toshiba has no drivers for the CD on the support site.

mjs_mjs

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my post to tosh support.

 

urm this will be a weird one...

 

I have a new tosh laptop brought for me through the DSA scheme in the UK (i'm currently a student) and well the supplying company have removed the Toshiba install of windows and given me their custom one including settings i do not like - i would like to return this to a blank copy of windows or the tosh copy of windows but i don't have access to either currently it would seem.

 

I have downloaded a copy from Official Windows 7 SP1 Disks - Win Toolkit - WinCert.net Forums burn it to disk but i get the error "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. if you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now." I have tried using all the drivers the ''support'' company had installed (into a partition/folder and told me about), but none work - have also tried changing the ACHI to IDE mode in the BIOS and that didn't help so changed it back. i have looked in tosh support but the drivers don't appear in the list.

 

I also have an automated win 7 32bit enterprise install on a USB from the days of working in corporate IT and studying for (70-680) this doesn't give me the error and allows me to install windows. (onto another partition for now). I don't want to use it as i don't own an enterprise licence and do own the OEM license with the laptop so would like to use it.

 

what do people suggest i do?

 

I'm getting "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. if you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now." Anyone else ever had this?

mjs_mjs

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Look for mass storage / sata drivers, it may be using a weird chipset.

 

- using intel mobile express SATA AHCI controller/chipset - after loading those drivers i get " no new devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation media."

mjs_mjs

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That'll learn you for getting a Toshiba ;)

 

 

Not my choice - If i had gone out and brought it there wouldn't be a problem as it would come with recovery program to make disks and tbh it would be usable out of the box. :) just this company have messed with it.

 

Will give the external disk drive a go :) cheers

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Which Toshiba laptop do you have? You most likely need the Intel RST 'F6' AHCI drivers.

 

The "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing" error message is also sometimes caused by bad DVD-R discs or the ISO being corrupt. It might be worth verifying the SHA-1 checksum using HashCheck to be sure.

 

[b]Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1[/b] (English)
x64 (X17-58997.iso)
[b]SHA-1[/b]: [color="#FF0000"]6C9058389C1E2E5122B7C933275F963EDF1C07B9[/color]

x86 (X17-58996.iso)
[b]SHA-1[/b]: [color="#FF0000"]6071B4553FCF0EA53D589A846B5AE76743DD68FC[/color]

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mjs_mjs

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ahha - thanks Arthur, that's a really neat shell extension (thank you), it seams this is my problem - i have a different hash. would that be due to me re-naming the ISO or is it likely to be corrupt?
mjs_mjs

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i think there will be two drive partitions and one will be for data and other will be for recovery of OS

recover your OS from there

 

Well that's the tosh (and others) way of doing things. So was what i was expecting but...

 

Nope - there were 2 partitions, C and D - forget the 100MB system one for now. C was for windows and all the program files apparently (~70GB) and D(~400GB) held the custom recovery WIM file and all of the drivers, and they had set it up so that 'my documents' was on D - but they forgot about all of the other data like desktop ect. It was almost a good idea, so that they can remotely restore the windows partition without loosing my data on D - except most of my data usually reside's on the C drive, and some of documents have to to work. I also use Linux and normally have an instance of server 2003/2008 also for testing things out on. To put it bluntly, they had a reasonably good idea (from them supporting an idiot on the phone downloading viruses perspective), but not followed it through with the details, and completely forgot about those of us who have to have things set in certain ways or they just wont work. eg, some software i use has to sit, both program files and data, on the C drive and cannot contain any spaces if file names or directory structure. Not nice but just the way it is.

 

I wouldn't mind this if i were say an English student and all i use is Word, internet, refworks ect, but i'm not. I'm a maths student with a background in computing (which they know) so they should have given me a laptop where i can install my number crunching apps, simulation apps and data crunching apps without having to fight to get things to work.

 

(i realize this is perhaps not the place to vent my frustration, but for something that is meant to help me it's a lot of hassle.)

 

Anyway - I'll try with a new image (with the correct hash) and see where I get to tomorrow. Thank you for all of you'r input guys, it is very much appreciated.

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