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Windows 7 Backup/Recovery DVD install directly to a virtual machine...
Hey guys,
My brother in law passed away weeks ago, and I'm desperate to find some important old files from 10 years ago that might have been on his old laptop - which I cannot find.
I have some Windows 7 Backup DVD's (5 in total) for an ASUS laptop, but no laptop!
Is there a way to successfully install this on a virtual machine?
I have tried and although it starts off promising with booting up a Windows recovery, I get greeted with the message "the recovery DVD is not for this model, check again". Now I understand that this is due to recovery DVD's being designed specifically for the hardware it was created on, but is there anyway around this?
BTW I have no idea what model his laptop was, otherwise I would try and hunt down a second hand one and use the DVDs on that.
Many thanks