Need help in installing vista home premium

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Hi,

I have HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop. It came with preinstalled windows vista home premium. I like to reinstall. So i just formated the whole harddrive. Before that i created a recovery DVD with the help of the HP recovery manager. When i try to restore the vista home premium, with the help of my revovery dics, it says some error like This recovery disc cannot be used. Any ways to recover my windows vista home premium edition.

only 1 ... go to ur dealer

^ +1 for iMav's reply

... no other way

The laptop is bought in saudi. Can i go to a dealer in chennai, india.

dont they give recovery disks included with laptops?

yes i have a recovery disc. HP Restore plus!

restore wont re-install ur os ... if u install vista and then run the restore then it will be of any help ... havnt tried it though but i dont think recovery will be of ne help in this case

hmm this is wrong, we pay for the os and they should at least give a cd so we can restore it later all they give is a serial key...

^^ not even that

... u need to extract it more often than not

Get an original Vista disc from some friend or anyone and install it with your key.I think this should work.

for the key u will need to contact hp or ur dealer the serial no. on the backof the nb isnt the windows key

iMav said:
^^ not even that ... u need to extract it more often than not

Is it not printed on the COA

i didnt find it on any of the papers so had to use a key finder but maybe some dealers mention it .... dont know ...