Re-installing Vista OEM minus a disk.....

Scania · 27 Feb 2011 at 13:39

I am selling my old laptop, it has Vista home premium OEM.

Trouble is, I don't have its recovery disks nor an oem Vista disk.

Given that I have a licence key, if I can find an iso image of Vista , I assume I could use that to re-install (after burning it to a DVD) using my machines licence key?

I suspect this is a sin & I'd be damned though!

Beans on toast Dave · 27 Feb 2011 at 13:40

is it that acer listed? i think you can press alt+f10 when booting and it should boot into recovery
you might have to enable recovery (D2D)in the bios

i think all this depends if you have formatted with vista before tho

Scania · 27 Feb 2011 at 15:34

challengedavid said:
is it that acer listed? i think you can press alt+f10 when booting and it should boot into recovery
you might have to enable recovery (D2D)in the bios

i think all this depends if you have formatted with vista before tho

I'll try that, but I'm sure its recovery partition is long dead.

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Feb 2011 at 15:39

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I'll try that, but I'm sure its recovery partition is long dead.

Then you will need to get a Vista disk. Try over at My Digital Life Forums (MDLF).

Scania · 27 Feb 2011 at 18:00

Thanks, I'll take a look.

m4rkw7 · 27 Feb 2011 at 19:29

postmanfw · 27 Feb 2011 at 20:08

^^Not true.

A dell disk will work with any brand of laptop or pc as long as code is legit

Meatball · 27 Feb 2011 at 21:45

You'll be fine using a generic Vista Home Premium OEM DVD

. If you use an unbranded disk you'll benefit from a fresh install free of factory installed bloat!