Get windows CD from Rescue Discs

[daedalus123]

Get windows cd from rescue discs

Hiyas, I recently bought a Packard Bell desktop computer with an OEM Windows Home, I burned the rescue discs from it (4 CD's).

On the 4th disc I found a FILES.ARJ with the size of 425Mb, got it unpacked and it contained the I386 folder (427Mb) and all the subfolders and files like a 'real' Xp CD.

I then took the SETUP.EXE, BOOTFONT.BIN and those WIN**** files from my laptops WindowsXp and put them in the same directory as the I386 folder and started up nLite which said "Make sure that the selected folder contains the proper installation files".

So are those files specific for the laptops Windows or am I missing some other files from the I386 folder? I haven't tried it in VMWare yet.

Does anyone have any experience in extracting a Windows Cd from rescue discs?

Is it even legal to do it?

Did I post this in the wrong forum/section?

The reason I want to extract the Windows is because Packard Bell thinks I need

all the other software that comes on the other 3 CD's which I don't want.

And this computer is gonna be a 'TV-comp' someday so I would like to slim Windows it down a lot.

[xmanglc]

look for and i386 directory on most oem installs it on the root of C