Vista - Download Vista RC1 build 5600 x64

I know that MS has closed the download but what am i suposed to do, i got
that version installed on one of my laptops and it wont boot up anymore, it
says i need to put in the cd to restore Vista to a previous working state,
but ive lost the cd.
I got importent files on the harddrive that i need and Vista wont load.

Ive searched all over and only found it on a few torrentsites but there are
no seeders.

I dont want to lose all the pictures and other files i have on the computer,
can anyone help me out?

you can upgrade to vista RTM (although that is not supported normally)

Im sure the RC1 or RC2 is floating somewhere in cyberspace...


"Suppe" <Suppe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1234B1B6-90C7-43AE-8E6D-560A04A1F655@microsoft.com...
>I know that MS has closed the download but what am i suposed to do, i got
> that version installed on one of my laptops and it wont boot up anymore,
> it
> says i need to put in the cd to restore Vista to a previous working state,
> but ive lost the cd.
> I got importent files on the harddrive that i need and Vista wont load.
>
> Ive searched all over and only found it on a few torrentsites but there
> are
> no seeders.
>
> I dont want to lose all the pictures and other files i have on the
> computer,
> can anyone help me out?

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:05:35 -0800, Suppe wrote:

> I know that MS has closed the download but what am i suposed to do, i got
> that version installed on one of my laptops and it wont boot up anymore, it
> says i need to put in the cd to restore Vista to a previous working state,
> but ive lost the cd.
> I got importent files on the harddrive that i need and Vista wont load.

Why not boot a Linux Live CD and retrieve the data you're interested in?
Knoppix or Elive would do that very easily.

>
> Ive searched all over and only found it on a few torrentsites but there are
> no seeders.
>
> I dont want to lose all the pictures and other files i have on the computer,
> can anyone help me out?

Boot a Linux Live CD and copy them to another partition on the disk or a
CD or an external USB drive or a USB flash drive or whatever else you
might have been planning on copying to.