Has anyone got an authentic OEM DVD that they could iso and upload to my server for me? My laptop came with one of those silly drives that has a recovery partition rather than a recovery DVD so once the drives gone you're screwed. Got my licence key and everything. Just need the installation DVD.
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Vista Home Premium OEM DVD
5 durable postsStarted 2010-01-12Latest 2010-01-12
Re: Vista Home Premium OEM DVD
did you delete the partition that has the recovery data? I would try to burn the data off of that.
Re: Vista Home Premium OEM DVD
Any idea how I could get in to it? Windows 7 can see it (although the management console says its 100% free and it has no drive letter). Tried all sorts of key combinations to boot into to no avail. Also got no software on the laptop to burn it with.
Re: Vista Home Premium OEM DVD
Try this
[url]http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Recovery-Discs-for-Windows-Vista-in-HP-Recovery-Manager[/url]
Re: Vista Home Premium OEM DVD
Can give that a go. However, I'd first have to restore the original Vista installation (has Windows 7 on it at the moment) to do it. Which I can't as I can't access the boot partition. Tried all sorts of key combinations at start up and nothing is working.