Windows 7 Official Download Links?

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Not looking for Torrent links.. Looking for a place I can Obtain Windows 7 x64 Home Premium? I have a License.. I dont trust torrents... I'm in need of a clean install on my Laptop. I always thought Microsoft offered links to the Editions like with XP, Vista

[Donkey88]

You'd have to ask microsoft to send you a new disc.

[Darrian]

They do, if you buy a digital copy (e.g Technet, MSDN). Otherwise you'll have to pay like $10 for them to mail you a replacement disc.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Well I have a laptop that didn't come with a Windows 7 disk.

[giantpotato]

There's this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcen...x?ITPID=sprblog but I'm not sure if you can use retail keys with this, probably not.

[KZWings]

You should probably check with the manufacturer of your laptop.

http://support.microsoft.com/?LN=en-us&amp...&scid=gp%3B[ln]%3Boemphone

You will have to copy/paste the link.

[Anibal P]

Well I have a laptop that didn't come with a Windows 7 disk.

The PC Manufacturer will send you a disk usually for free or at a low cost

I needed to replace my disk once, Dell charged $25 but that was for the latest XP version (not original XP) and all the driver disks my System would need

[O.G]

Ask some one with technet/msdn subscription to fetch you a list of sha1/crc32 for the various official images, then use those to verify an aquired image (which are by no means hard to find). You've already paid for the license, why pay any more for something you already own?

[hdood]

Not looking for Torrent links.. Looking for a place I can Obtain Windows 7 x64 Home Premium? I have a License.. I dont trust torrents... I'm in need of a clean install on my Laptop. I always thought Microsoft offered links to the Editions like with XP, Vista

Microsoft has never done this. Not with XP, not with Vista, and not with 7. If you have a laptop with 7, I'm guessing it has a recovery partition with 7 on it.

[AdzzzUK]

Not looking for Torrent links.. Looking for a place I can Obtain Windows 7 x64 Home Premium? I have a License.. I dont trust torrents... I'm in need of a clean install on my Laptop. I always thought Microsoft offered links to the Editions like with XP, Vista

If your laptop is brand new and didn't come with discs, there will be a utility on there to create your own disk.

If for some reason you are unable to do this, you should contact the manufacturers support team.

[Pablo2008jedi]

If its an OEM license you will need to contact your manufacturer of the PC, if retail license you will need to contact Microsoft.

[hdood]

oh for pete sake guys give the man a break

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this is not warez its links to official downloads. Note you need the appropriate license and as the OP states he has a valid license then theres not a problem. It could be the OP has a license but doesnt have the discs for whatever reason, these download links will allow you to download the correct .iso

Yes, they are. These are internal links for paying customers. They are not intended for the general public. You can find direct links to all Microsoft software, but that does not make it a free for all.

In fact, the site you are linking to is a major warez site.

Having a product license does in fact not give you any rights to obtain the media. These are separate things. If 7 came with his machine, he should just use the recovery partition on it, or request recovery media from his OEM.

[corrosive23]

Digital Life is not a major ware site. Now if it was something like f.o.s.i. then yeah.

[hdood]

Digital Life is not a major ware site. Now if it was something like f.o.s.i. then yeah.

Yes it is. Both it and its forum is filled with content about pirating and cracking various Microsoft products. It's major in the sense that it's very popular for it.

[bornslippy]

Digital Life is not a major ware site. Now if it was something like f.o.s.i. then yeah.

MDL is a big Windows cracking site. Most of the developers of various bootloaders comes from users of this forum.

BIOS modding, RemoveWAT, and OEM-SLP is a big part of MDL.

[andy2004]

look if the OP has a valid windows license but just needs the media whats the big friggin deal ? i didnt link to the forums i didnt even mention the forums i just linked to an article i came across as my windows 7 disc broke.

[hdood]

look if the OP has a valid windows license but just needs the media whats the big friggin deal ? i didnt link to the forums i didnt even mention the forums i just linked to an article i came across as my windows 7 disc broke.

Nothing, except that it is against the forum rules. Also, it's not just the forums that are about piracy, much of the rest of the site is as well.

It's no some great moral sin.

[ibetheone]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx

[majortom1981]

If the license is from a laptop you cant get the disk through microsoft.

You have to get the disk through your laptops manufacturer. The key off your laptop will only work with a disc from the manufacturer of your laptop.

A technet copy wont work either since technet gives out retail keys and discs.

[hdood]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx

That is not a retail version of Windows 7, it's a special evaluation build that only accepts special evaluation keys for the Enterprise edition that last 90 days.

You have to get the disk through your laptops manufacturer. The key off your laptop will only work with a disc from the manufacturer of your laptop.

I believe the key that comes with the machine actually will work with any media. The pre-installed version of Windows doesn't use this key at all, it uses generic (OEM-specific) keys together with an offline activation system that is tied to the BIOS. Of course, I could be wrong about the first part.

[majortom1981]

That is not a retail version of Windows 7, it's a special evaluation build that only accepts special evaluation keys for the Enterprise edition that last 90 days.

I believe the key that comes with the machine actually will work with any media. The pre-installed version of Windows doesn't use this key at all, it uses generic (OEM-specific) keys together with an offline activation system that is tied to the BIOS. Of course, I could be wrong about the first part.

The keys manufacturers use for their equipment will not work on a retail copy. I know because if you sysprep a laptop straight from factory you will have to type in the oem supplied key and a retail key wont work.

[hdood]

Alright here are the fast retail download links from microsoft

Can you post the Microsoft site where these are posted? I'm assuming you can, because they can't possibly be internal links that paying customers get after completing their purchase that someone figured out the URL to and posted on the web.

If the forum is going to accept that, there's no reason why they shouldn't also allow random links to all kinds of commercial software.

Also, links have already been posted so presumably he's already been able to download it from somewhere.

[ibetheone]

Yeah I don't know of the microsoft website that has them, just that enterprise link and the other tech news webpage, well with that enterprise iso you can download it and just delete the ei.cfg file located in the sources directory to enable the hidden menu that will let you install any edition of windows 7.

[mrp04]

Big deal. If this person was looking for Warez and had a crack, he wouldn't be asking here for the ISO from Microsoft, he would get it from wherever he got his crack. This person has a license, why should he pay for shipping and handling on physical media when he can just download the ISO and burn it to a 50 cent DVD?

[hdood]

well with that enterprise iso you can download it and just delete the ei.cfg file located in the sources directory to enable the hidden menu that will let you install any edition of windows 7.

No, it will not. It is not a retail ISO.