Hi,
You can't use the recovery set from one laptop on another if they are
different makes/models. You need a recovery set that is specific to your
machine, and the must be obtained from the manufacturer (not the supplier
nor should you use a retail disk). They will likely charge you a small fee
for shipping the disks. You should already have a license for the use of
Vista either in the laptop documentation of affixed to the bottom of the
unit. As to activation, you will likely need to phone it in rather than use
the automated version.
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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
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> hi
> i have a lap top that acidently got damged and neaded the hard drive
> replacing.
> i am having problems reinstaling vista due to the fact that i did not get
> a
> recovery disk with the lap top as the origanal hard drive was partitiond.
>
> i do own another lap top with vista on it this is also a partitiond hard
> drive this is a acer system and had a program to make a vista restore disk
> i
> have done this and i installd it to my lap top that was damaged and it
> workd
> fo 30 days then it askd me to enter a product key to activate the system
> i
> enterd the corect product key and then it said conecting to internet but
> that
> is as far as i can get as the lap top has not got the modem driver instald
> to
> it but i canot do this unles i have operating system on to instal them. i
> have contacted the suplier of the lap top and was told i either nead to
> buy
> the full version of vista on disk from microsoft or get another product
> key
> and then enter that as the pruduct key i was useing is registerd with one
> pc
> and this breaches terms and conditons. i have now got 3 difernt product
> keys
> and still after 30 days it says the prudoct key you have enterd is invalid
> enter a valid product key this has gone on for aprox 3 month. ther must be
> a
> way around this problem plz help as i dont belive i shold have to buy the
> softwer wen thay used to give you a copy in the old times and i now own a
> toatal of 3 systems two of wich are runig the third is the one i cant use
> i
> have tried to down load a recovery program and put it onto disk but this
> does
> not work i have also tried to put vista on an external but then i cant
> install it to my lap top until i have a operating system to read the hard
> drive and the files help plz
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