what happens if I have to reinstall Vista?

I recently read that a few people had complete failures and had to reinstall.
I have a Samsung Sens G25 which has a preinstalled Home Premium.
How would I go about reinstalling if that were to happen?
I ask as a precaution only, as I live in a very untecchie part of China, and
would be lost without my computer,
thanks,
Ian

ianmcallister wrote:
> I recently read that a few people had complete failures and had to reinstall.
> I have a Samsung Sens G25 which has a preinstalled Home Premium.
> How would I go about reinstalling if that were to happen?
> I ask as a precaution only, as I live in a very untecchie part of China, and
> would be lost without my computer,
> thanks,
> Ian

If you don't have a restore disc, then you probably have the restore
function on a hidden partition and you will need to make a DVD yourself.
Contact Sansung (or instructions may be in a manual if one came with the
computer) to find out how to make one.

Alias

Hi,

You need to consult your system documentation for the appropriate recovery
method as they vary by manufacturer. Quite often, they involve a recovery
volume on the hard drive itself that is accessed during the boot process.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"ianmcallister" <> wrote in message
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>I recently read that a few people had complete failures and had to
>reinstall.
> I have a Samsung Sens G25 which has a preinstalled Home Premium.
> How would I go about reinstalling if that were to happen?
> I ask as a precaution only, as I live in a very untecchie part of China,
> and
> would be lost without my computer,
> thanks,
> Ian

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:56:01 -0800, ianmcallister
<> wrote:

> I recently read that a few people had complete failures and had to reinstall.
> I have a Samsung Sens G25 which has a preinstalled Home Premium.
> How would I go about reinstalling if that were to happen?


OEM vendors are required by their agreement with Microsoft to give you
a means of reinstalling, should it be necessary. They can do this in
one of three ways:

1. An OEM copy of Windows
2. A restore CD
3. A hidden partition on your drive, with restore information.

If you don't have 1 or 2, you should have 3, but you should contact
your vendor to find out.

Personally, I find both 2 and 3 unacceptable (especially 3; a hard
drive crash can leave you with nothing), and would never choose to buy
a computer that came with an operating system unless I got a complete
generic installation CD for that operating system.


> I ask as a precaution only, as I live in a very untecchie part of China, and
> would be lost without my computer,
> thanks,
> Ian

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