going back to windows vista from linux

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danlightbulb

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Hi all,

I want to go back to windows vista on my laptop. It's currently running linux.

When I installed linux I left the recovery partition of windows vista intact. I assumed that leaving this would allow me to go back to windows in the future. When I load the recovery partition however, it starts into HP recovery manager fine and gets so far into the process, but then gives an error. The error is labelled 100a, and from googling this means anything and everything.

From reading around the problem, this may be due to the linux boot loader and no existing windows partition.

I do not know how to remove this and go back to windows vista using the recovery partition, and there is little advice out there. The main point seems to be to use the original discs, but I only have the recovery partition.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks
 
Can you get hold of the laptop OEM and ask them to send out some replacement media?

I honestly struggle to understand all this "recovery partition" junk. Dell did the same on the missus' laptop and guess what? It never worked. Not once.
 
Might be best just to find a Windows Vista ISO and burn that to a disk/bootable USB and then use that to freshly install Vista. Make sure to get the correct version (home/pro/ultimate), the sticker with the product key will tell you the Windows version.

Oddly enough the site I used to download old Windows ISOs seems to be down...
 
x64:
Code: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6MExSE_kUcAU2dtWDEyYjVjNDQ

SHA1: AAEE3C04533899F9F8C4AE0C4250EF5FAFBE29A3
MSDN

x86:
Code: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6MExSE_kUcAOUt5UFcxUlh5Ulk

SHA1: 25AD9A776503E6A583BEC07879DBCC5DFD20CD6E
MSDN
 
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