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Please note: Do not post advertisements, offensive material, profanity, or personal attacks. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. My nephew has a Compaq Presario laptop which quit working a couple months after the warranty expired. It turns out the the hard drive is totally dead. Unfortunately he never created a recovery disk. I haven't worked with Vista as of yet and am not sure exactly how the licensing works. What I am trying to find out is how to reinstall Vista on the new hard drive.

The computer has the green and white sticker with the license key on it. Even if I had a recovery disk, would the install have worked since the HD was totally dead?

I would think so, but just read somewhere that you needed the disk and the recovery partition. Thanks in advance. Share Flag. All Answers. Collapse -. Different sys and recov disks. Once it sees the correct BIOS flag, it self activates. COA SLP: This is the key seen on the sticker located on the side, bottom or in the battery compartment of your machine.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Toshiba Satellite A Diagnostic Report 1. This thread is locked. Discussion in ' Windows Vista ' started by reginakampher , Jul 27, My Digital Life Forums. Apr 5, You need to login to view this posts content. The database has been updated. A special thanks to Suicide Solution for his contribution.

Apr 29, 1, Reserved space. May 14, Jul 28, 67 11 0. These tools are just to test if they are valid keys and what versions they are for, etc. The cdkey in Vista determines what version will be installed.