Any chance to extract Windows from recovery DVDs
- by Pekka
I have an Acer Tablet PC that came with WIndows XP Tablet PC Edition in the form of three recovery DVDs.
Sadly, a mainboard fault put the machine out of business. I have now bought a used one from a different manufacturer that comes without an operating system.
The recovery DVDs seem to contain three parts of a Norton Ghost image, and nothing else. The recovery DVD won't even start on a Non-Acer system.
I'm a bit miffed because I legally own a Windows XP Tablet PC Edition license that I now can't use on the original machine any more. As far as I know, it's not legal in my jurisdiction for them to bind the license to a certain machine. I want to continue using the operating system on the new machine.
Is there any chance of extracting usable Windows XP installation files from that image? How are such image files usually made up?
Is there any free software around that can read Norton Ghost images so I can take a peek myself?