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I downloaded the exe and two wim files, and successfully created an .iso and then used the Microsoft Windows 7 USB DVD download tool to create a bootable install DVD. But when I tried to perform the install, the installer only gave me the option for installation in French. This surprised me since the files appeared to be the English version.
Retail Windows (physical): Nowhere! Retail Windows (digital download): Microsoft Store affiliate; Digital River! Microsoft Store, digital download. As far as consumers go, Digital River and Microsoft Store is the only place you can legally download your purchesed copy of Windows. But you must have purchased it there to be able to download there ...
3. If they are not already there, copy boot.wim and install.wim into the Vista\sources folder that is created when you doubled clicked on the .exe file in step 2. 4. Download the Windows Bootable Image Creator zip file, WBICreator.zip. 5. Extract the files in WBICreator.zip to a folder.
11. Select a hard drive or partition that you want to do a clean install of Vista on, do what Drive options (advanced) you want if any, and click on the Next button when finished. (See screenshot below) . NOTE: If you have your hard drives in a RAID setup, then connect your USB key with the RAID drivers on it, click on Load Driver, select the ...
Find the Media Creation Tool on the Windows 10 Software download page. There are two versions of the tool, one for a "32-bit operating system" and one for a "64-bit operating system". To find out which you have, go to Start, type Control panel, select System and security, and then, under System, look at the value for System type:.
1. Windows 8/8.1. After a fresh install, the system does not auto activate and when one tries to enter the correct OEM Product Key (extracted from BIOS), it is refused. The trick is to first remove the current Product Key with slmgr /upk, then the OEM key can be entered and activation works flawlessly.
Manually Create Vista Installation USB Key. 1. Plug the USB key in. . . 2. If AutoPlay opens a pop-up for the USB key, then just close it. NOTE:Make note of what the drive size is for the USB key for step 6 below. You can also open Computer (step 21) to see what the drive size is to. For example, mine is 3920 MB.
The Vista keys for 32-Bit and 64-bit are the same per edition, so your key will work irrelevant of the architecture. Currently the same rule applies to Windows 7. Safe yourself a lot of heartache and simply download and use VirtualBox. It happily supports Windows Vista 64-Bit in a Virtual Machine and is also provided free of charge.
2. Make your own image (*.iso) from physical media with any of a number of CD imaging tools. ImgBurn is a popular choice. Also worth noting that an MSDN OS Subscription from Microsoft lets you download ISOs for pretty much every version of Windows they've ever shipped, including all variants of Windows XP, which are readily usable in VMs.
Here are the download links for Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone (KB948465) on the official Microsoft Download Center: 32-bit: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86 64-bit: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64-----32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.9.0 * Norton Security Deluxe v22.15.1.8 * MS Office ...