Need OEM vista disk

fat-600 · 12 Jun 2008 at 16:26

hey guys i need to get hold of a 32bit OEM vista disk as the hard drive is dead in the rents pc

as the COA is on the case im gussing this will work, but where can i just get the disk from?

msn email in trust

thanks!

sparkey196 · 12 Jun 2008 at 17:53

The OEM DVDs are different for each vendor. You can download this package which has instructions for changing a Retail install to OEM. Just do an install with any regular vista disk (leave the product key blank when prompted for it) then follow the instuctions in the package for installing the certificates for your manufactuer and changing to product key to the one on your COA.

fat-600 · 12 Jun 2008 at 17:58

Thanks for that but i dont even have any vista HP media only ultimate and even then thats 64bit

sparkey196 · 12 Jun 2008 at 18:08

You can download it perfectly legally off the net if you have a valid COA. This is the file you want (released on MSDN).

Windows Vista x86 SP1 English

6001.18000.080118-1840_x86fre_Client_en-us-FRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso

MD5
b09267740ddd1a08

CRC32
0xCE4CB528
d80b04ec6bbc232a

Burnsy2023 · 12 Jun 2008 at 18:11

sparkey196 said:
You can download it perfectly legally off the net if you have a valid COA.

Not quite. It's totally legal if it's off a MS source, but most other places don't have the right to distribute the image, but then again if you'renot uploading then you aren't doing anything long. It's far from perfectly legal though.

You can get OEM media directly from MS through this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246

Burnsy

csmager · 12 Jun 2008 at 18:27

fat-600 said:
Thanks for that but i dont even have any vista HP media only ultimate and even then thats 64bit

All media's the same - the key determines what gets installed (or choosing no key lets you pick yourself).

That said, if it's 64-bit that doesn't help!

sparkey196 · 12 Jun 2008 at 19:25

not true. the OEM media has vendor specific certificates. You are correct in that the same media is used for home, business etc.

csmager · 12 Jun 2008 at 20:55

sparkey196 said:
not true. the OEM media has vendor specific certificates. You are correct in that the same media is used for home, business etc.

Which is what I meant. Vendor Certificates only apply to the big OEMs anyway, and besides, you can get them yourself. Not really an issue.

sparkey196 · 13 Jun 2008 at 00:08

csmager said:
Which is what I meant. Vendor Certificates only apply to the big OEMs anyway, and besides, you can get them yourself. Not really an issue.

Sorry. I thought you meant one could simply use retail media with a COA key.