Toshiba Restore Disk, changing install language

[JoeM]

I bought a new computer in Russia with Home Premium X86 preintalled. I'd like to use the Restore Disk that came with as the install disk to make life easy, but change the install language to English, which I can't do. On the Restore disk (Disk Reanimator) there are a bunch of largish .swm files and imagex.exe among other things. There's also a setenv.ini file with the following settings;

[Common]

Packer=ImageX

InstallCMD=\inst.cmd

FactoryInstallCMD=\facinst.cmd

PartitionSizeGB=-1

MinPartitionSizeGB=15

DefaultGUILang=Русский

NumLang=1

Hnum=H07747RU

[Lang1]

Lang=RUS

OS=Windows Vista

ImageName=05730XSP.swm

ImageIndex=2

WinREIndex=1

Spanning=0

FS=NTFS

StartMedium=1

If I create another Disk exactly the same and simply change "Lang=ENG" will it install in English? Could it be that easy?

I also bought an Install Disk locally with a few Vista versions on it, which I installed and got working after much mucking about with drivers, but I'm not happy with it, it's not working properly. One alternative is to install with the Restore Disk, upgrade to Ultimate with the Disk I bought and change the language to English. If anyone can tell me how to upgrade to Vista with an install disk, that'd be great. (the install disk does have an upgrade folder on it, something about netfx, can't remember)

Later on I'll probably switch to a cut-down version of Vista. For now I'm interested in playing around with all the Toshiba extras that came with it.

I think this would have better posted in the "Unattended Vista" section. Could Mods move this?

Edited May 4, 2008 by JoeM