Microsoft do not provide media for OEM unless it is the holographic system builder media. For larger manufacturers the OEM is the only company who can provide this. If you have read about the leak of the Lenovo Windows 7 image you will understand that they take the master disk, roll in their brand certificate and brand the bios chips to match. So their disks are the only ones which will activate with their bios/hardware. We do a bit of building machines and can get replacement media from distribution, but we only do very small numbers.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 19 August 2009 17:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Generic Vista install without OEM shovelware On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sam Cayze<[email protected]> wrote: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246 "You should contact the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) or the system builder directly to replace Microsoft software that was distributed with your computer." I've called Microsoft in the past for OEM media replacement, and they try *really hard* to get you to go back to the OEM. A friend had lost their OEM media for a computer where the OEM was no longer doing business. Microsoft tracked down the company that bought their assets, and made *them* ship a set of *their* OEM media to me. I'm planning on giving it a shot anyway, but I'm pretty sure MSFT will just tell me to fsck off. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
