[bengt]

Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs

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NeoSmart Technologies is hosting a copy of the Windows 7 Recovery Disc for your convenience. It's a 143 MiB download (165 MiB for the 64-bit version), and in the standard ISO format, ready to be burned directly to a CD or DVD. Don't wait until your PC crashes to download a copy! Download and burn your recovery disc today, so that when the time comes, you'll be ready!

Downloads are Torrent files.

[Jotnar]

The are many legal ways to get the files and none of them are to download them from neosmart.

They would be to either:

1) Own a version of Windows 7 (Retail/OEM/TechNet/MSDN) and create the discs
2) Download the Windows 7 Enterprise trial and create the discs
3) Download the Windows 7 trial vhd file and create the discs

Cheers

[bengt]

ooops I knew that, but then again, that is odd because I was referred to the cd:s from this site, the Official Windows Magazine (the name in it self does not make it official, I know) which made me hop to www.thewindowsclub.com which in turn referred me to NeoSmart.
but knowing Windows, you are probably right (maybe).

And to quote some random text on the thewindowsclub site:

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...Microsoft seems to have realized this problem, and have thankfully made a recovery disc for this purpose. It contains the contents of the Windows 7 DVD’s “recovery center,” as we’ve come to refer to it. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows 7, and just serves as a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, one could re-create this installation media with freely-downloadable media from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK kit, a multi-gigabyte download); but it’s damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows’ users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own. You can make your own copy from Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, but now you have an easier alternative.

This post has been edited by bengt: 16 October 2009 - 03:42 AM