In need of W7 Ultimate 64Bit (disc only)

Dicehunter · 27 May 2010 at 15:55

Ok so i bought the above in germany when i was over there and was planning on putting it on my laptop when i got back to england, i got back and opened the box and as im a sufferer of butter fingers it dropped and cracked so now i dont wont to put it in my disc drive just incase it never comes back out.
Is there a chance i can buy just the official disc from microsoft without the serial as i already have that ?

Thanks for any help

Aedus · 27 May 2010 at 16:04

Best bet would be to just ask someone to borrow theirs, maybe someone on this forum and offer to give them a lil bit of £ for their troubles.

or maybe you can find an ISO of windows 7 floating around and burn it to a disk, so long as you have a legit CD-key you can bung in, it shouldn't be any problem.

Ryan-3 · 27 May 2010 at 16:14

I know its not going to help, but did you post this in MicroMart?

platypus · 27 May 2010 at 16:34

You'd find it easiest to download an ISO from a torrent and use your legitimate key.

Dicehunter · 27 May 2010 at 16:54

platypus said:
You'd find it easiest to download an ISO from a torrent and use your legitimate key.

Im not a fan of torrents as a few friends of mine have been fined large amounts of money for downloading them.

platypus · 27 May 2010 at 17:11

I'd have said its irrelevant since you've paid for a valid key.

Azuse05 · 27 May 2010 at 17:28

True, but you shouldn't have to do that just to get a spare copy of the media

Mircosoft do sell disks, they did it with everyone who wanted vista x64 after launch, but it takes time and costs. Beg/borrow for a quick fix.

marc512 · 27 May 2010 at 18:27

Downloading of torrent is best bet, it is legal until you use a illegal CD key. But you rightly bought yours so just use that

FoxEye · 27 May 2010 at 22:43

Windows 7 Ultimate Retail English (x64)

Name: 7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso
Size: 3224686592 bytes
Date Modified: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 17:40:25 PM
CRC: 1F1257CA
MD5: F43D22E4FB07BF617D573ACD8785C028
SHA-1: 326327CC2FF9F05379F5058C41BE6BC5E004BAA7

Get it from a torrent. Google the exact filename as given above, and verify with the SHA or CRC above.

platypus · 28 May 2010 at 08:59

Azuse05 said:
True, but you shouldn't have to do that just to get a spare copy of the media

No? It's in all the software distributors favour surely. Use a highly efficient and fast method of file distribution to people who have legally bought a key, saving the expense of creating media.

If companies would adopt bit torrent properly instead of trying to shut it down because they are scared of it, we could share legal software/data so much more easily, and cut down on materials needed to produce them. Look at linux distros, I can download a new one in about an hour, burn it and away I go.

Puppetmaster · 28 May 2010 at 12:12

But microsoft charge you for a disc though? I'm sure they make some sort of profit off of that as well.

Meatball · 28 May 2010 at 13:39

I could help you out, gimme an Email via trust

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.one. · 28 May 2010 at 16:55

DF1986 said:
Im not a fan of torrents as a few friends of mine have been fined large amounts of money for downloading them.

Im interested you say you have a few friends who have been fined for using torrents how many friends and how much out of interest ?

Azuse05 · 28 May 2010 at 18:49

Lmao. "Fined" = letter demanding money with no proof. Unless you're daft and use a network where you have to log in then there's now way for anyone to prove anything.

It'd be nice if distributors did do this, but so far most of them prefer using BT DNA because it does 2 things regular torrents don't. Give them control, uses the down-loaders line for financial gain while reducing their costs. Still, Gamershell started torrenting large demos a while back, and microsoft "leaks" new windows builds so we're starting to change.

There's no way in hell my x64 vista dvd cost £10 though, and ms makes good profits off of windows anyway so there's no real motivation for them to give isos away free when they can gouge people further.

Dicehunter · 29 May 2010 at 14:35

.one. said:
Im interested you say you have a few friends who have been fined for using torrents how many friends and how much out of interest ?

one of my friends downloaded the game two worlds through a torrent and got a letter from some london solicitor representing the two worlds developer with a lot of proof right down to which program he was using to download the torrent with, the time etc...
He even emailed the game developer and telephoned them just to make sure it wasnt a scam, turned out the developer was taking legal action against a lot of people for downloading their game.
SO then he had to pay 800 GBP in damages, the thing that annoyed me about that though is that his ISP (BT) gave the solicitors every scrap of information they wanted.

So thats why i dont download torrents