Download Vista RC1 build 5600 x64

[Guest]

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?

 

[nick]

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

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

 

[ray]

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.