Laptop supplied with Vista installed but no Vista disk

Hi, I bought a recon laptop advertised as inclusing Vista. It came
with Vista installed ok, but no vista disk.

So if my OS gets corrupted, I'm screwed, right?

Or is there a way I can produce a Vista installation CD from the
already-installed system?

Thank you,

JD

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:56:05 -0800, "Alex Clayton"
<> wrote:

>You can buy software to make a image of the drive, Like Acronis. It will let
>you make a mirror image including the OS, on a USB drive.

Akex,

Cool - thanks! I assumed that MS would have made that impossible,
under the excuse that it infringed their copyright or something.

JD

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:32 -0500,
Jake D <> wrote:
>
> Hi, I bought a recon laptop advertised as inclusing Vista. It came
> with Vista installed ok, but no vista disk.
>
> So if my OS gets corrupted, I'm screwed, right?
>
> Or is there a way I can produce a Vista installation CD from the
> already-installed system?

Check under Programs->PC Help & Tools for "Recovery Disc Creation"

I'm using a Compaq Presario Desktop not a laptop, iirc it indicates
it will make one copy.

I'm pretty sure the vendor is required to give you some way to
reinstall.

GL,

Michael C.
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