[nzlug] recondition laptop windows licence revisited

[Simon Bridge]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:12 +1300, Jack Pivac wrote:
> Simon Bridge wrote:
> > I see no C:\i386, but there is a C:\WINDOWS\I386 with lots of stuff in
> > it. Nothing that looks like an iso or raw CD image. No recovery
> > partition either. Of course - if I burned the content of this directory
> > to a CD, perhaps that's the recovery disk?
> >   
> Yup thats what you're after. If you get into dos (and load smartdrv) you
> can start a windows install from this data.
> I cant remember what the installer is called.. possibly winnt.exe.
> If you dont load smartdrv it takes about 20 hours :D

Ha... so that's how reconditioners can erase and restore the HDDs
without a licence violation. It is all clear now.

This also means I could have saved the other three licences against a
resell... nahhh!