Michael
Have a Dell Studio XPS system of about that vintage that has migrated
from Windows 7 to version 10. Migrated from the original disk drive to
an SSD. No problem with accessing the windows system from Fedora 37. The
system predates the uefi bios. Have three drives with different os on
each one. The fedora os's boot from the files in /boot and /boot/loader
with the windows os as a stanza in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg from
/etc/grub.d/40_custom. Windows is still on a MBR drive while the other
two are GPT.
Robert
PS Graduated before my school got a hard drive for the IBM 1130
On 1/10/23 09:18, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote:
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Date sent: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:16:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Installed Fedora 37 on older Dell with
Windows 10, but doen't
show windows as boot option??
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:08 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users
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Don't use windows much at all. So probable not worth doing for me. Windows was pre-install so have no windows media, and would have to find method to get the key code.
Do a google search for "download windows 10 iso" and there are links
to download the install media directly from Microsoft.
Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You
can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a
license key that is embedded in the firmware. There is also a Windows
program I have used that extracts the license key along with other
useful info, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't have any of
my Windows VM booted at the moment.
Strange.. Looked all over the machine, and Only 2
stickers I find on machine are one that says Windows 7,
and another one that says Intel i5 inside??
But when I got machine, it had Windows 10 installed,
and CPU-z and lshw-gui both show the CPU as an i3 not
an i5? Think I've used belarc advisor before and think it
actually displays the windows key. Think it is Optiplex
9020 small form..
Since the Windows 10 was installed on regular bios boot,
don't think the firmware would have any info. Just had a
small sda1partition with recovery, and sda2 was the c
drive on the 1T drive with 8G of ram. Had done a check
on upgrading cpu, but the socket and bios it reported
wouldn't support above the i3, or above the chips
generation. Recently upgraded CPU in one of my ASUS
motherboards from and AMD 2 core to AMD 8 core with
no issues. Did require a much better fan to keep temp
down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088
and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video
board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983.
Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes
over years..
Thanks for info.
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