vista key

i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give me
any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering if i
can download a copy of vista, and if i can use the product key thats on my
notebook?

Not likely!

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"drumstick" <drumstick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
> getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give
> me
> any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering
> if i
> can download a copy of vista, and if i can use the product key thats on my
> notebook?

Performing an HP System Recovery in Windows Vista:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...me=c008147 31

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"drumstick" wrote:

i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give me
any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering if i
can download a copy of vista, and if i can use the product key thats on my
notebook?

"drumstick" wrote>
i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
> getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give
> me
> any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering
> if i
> can download a copy of vista, and if i can use the product key thats on my
> notebook?

Contact HP tech support for information on how to restore the OS.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Hi,

No, your OEM key will not work with a retail disk. If you didn't make the
recovery disk set and cannot boot far enough to invoke the recovery options,
then call HP support and have them send you a set of disks (you will be
charged a nominal fee that you could have avoided by making your own when
you got the system). HP support contact:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

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

"drumstick" <drumstick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4EE233B-218C-4EE6-89A9-FAB1C6603482@microsoft.com...
>i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
> getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give
> me
> any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering
> if i
> can download a copy of vista, and if i can use the product key thats on my
> notebook?

drumstick wrote:
> i bought a hp notebook with vista already installed 2 months ago. now im
> getting a disk error read and need to reinstall vista. but they didnt give me
> any kind of recovery disks, and i didnt make one either. i was wondering if i
> can download a copy of vista,


No.


>.... and if i can use the product key thats on my
> notebook?


And no.

Contact HP for alternate recovery methods, since you neglected to
create the Recovery disks when you had the chance.


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