Ok, here's the backstory, you can skip it if you want- I just felt like clarifying.
So I've recently gotten a new hdd, and to make a long story short I don't have the old one but I do have a disk image on an external hard drive. Because I'm a genius I lost my disk copy of windows 7 and neglected to make a reinstall disk or something like that. Because of this, I have to make a recovery disk with an .iso downloaded of the internet. The problem I've encountered with that is that microsoft shut down there old site where you could easily download any .iso all willy-nilly. There new site needs a product key from a retail version of windows 7, which is a problem for me because I have an OEM version of windows which they for some reason don't support. After some searching I found another "verified" site that should have some clean .iso files to download. Now here is where I would love some help;
1. Will there be any issues I need to fix if I burn the recovery disk on a mac? I read some where in yahoo answers that I'd need to change some special lines of code or set up the burn utility some way.
2. Will a standard windows 7 .iso work with my OEM version? I've heard many mixed answers, and would love for you guys to verify.
Thanks! You guys have been so helpful!
So I've recently gotten a new hdd, and to make a long story short I don't have the old one but I do have a disk image on an external hard drive. Because I'm a genius I lost my disk copy of windows 7 and neglected to make a reinstall disk or something like that. Because of this, I have to make a recovery disk with an .iso downloaded of the internet. The problem I've encountered with that is that microsoft shut down there old site where you could easily download any .iso all willy-nilly. There new site needs a product key from a retail version of windows 7, which is a problem for me because I have an OEM version of windows which they for some reason don't support. After some searching I found another "verified" site that should have some clean .iso files to download. Now here is where I would love some help;
1. Will there be any issues I need to fix if I burn the recovery disk on a mac? I read some where in yahoo answers that I'd need to change some special lines of code or set up the burn utility some way.
2. Will a standard windows 7 .iso work with my OEM version? I've heard many mixed answers, and would love for you guys to verify.
Thanks! You guys have been so helpful!