no vista recovery disc - new hard drive

Hi

I have a acer aspire 9301 awsmi, and have just had to replace the hard
drive.

I have no restore / recovery discs.

Do i have to purchase a new edition of window vista and new licence?

Or can i use a different recovery disc? A friend has a Samsung r60, will
these discs work or just give problems?

Thanks


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frank1234

Having an Acer Laptop I know that the original recovery method was from a
Hidden Partition on the HD..........I also know that once loaded the machine
nagged you to create a Recovery Disk which you ignored or you would not be
here.
Now your only option is to contact Acer and ask to purchase a Recovery
CD...small fee.
Not only is the OS on that Recovery CD but also all of the drivers for the
Hardware..
OR to go spend $$$ on a full retail version of Vista and then visit the Acer
site to download
all of the hardware drivers for your particular machine.

peter


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"frank1234" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi
>
> I have a acer aspire 9301 awsmi, and have just had to replace the hard
> drive.
>
> I have no restore / recovery discs.
>
> Do i have to purchase a new edition of window vista and new licence?
>
> Or can i use a different recovery disc? A friend has a Samsung r60, will
> these discs work or just give problems?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> frank1234