Ok! So you're gone do this on your girlfriend computer where as i understend you have installed WAIK and all the files from vista's DVD it's on E:\ Vista ! Right ? Also, it's vista x86 ? Well if all of above are correct then all you have to do it's to copy the code below to notepad and then save that notepad as Vista.bat anywhere you like and execute it ! B) "%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\oscdimg.exe" /b"%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\boot\etfsboot.com" /h /lLRMCFRE_EN_DVD /o /u2 E:\Vista C:\Image.iso Then transfer Image.iso to yor linux and burn it! Let me know if you succeed !