Vista Home Premium install disc?

Tek7

Tek7

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As mentioned in my wife's Shoppin' for a lappy thread, my wife and I are looking at purchasing a new notebook.

I did some quick research and found that Best Buy and HP do not offer Vista install discs--even though the Vista license for the instance installed on the notebook is legitimate.

I've worked in IT for several years now and have connections that might be able to burn an extra copy of Vista Home Premium (the version of Vista installed on the notebook we're considering). Again, this is all legitimate because we would have a valid Vista Home Premium license.

My issue is: What version, exactly, am I asking for? There's about 100 flavors of Vista and I want to make sure I get the right install CD.

I'm thinking it'll be Vista Home Premium OEM, but I could be mistaken.
 
No need to go through those hoops. The OEM license has changed. They are not required to provide the actual discs..BUT they are required to provide a way to make your own recovery set. After you buy the laptop there will be a provided desktop or start menu link to create your own recovery set. It will be dvd based and take up to 3 dvd's depending on the system load out.
 
Just purchased a laptop that doesn't have recovery disks but the bios has a recovery mode. If you really screw up, flip a switch in the bios, reboot and the laptop recovers from a hidded 10g partition
 
Hescominsoon said:
No need to go through those hoops. The OEM license has changed. They are not required to provide the actual discs..BUT they are required to provide a way to make your own recovery set.
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Two words: Lame. Sauce. Which is actually one word, divided into two to further express how lame that is.

What do I do if I just want to do a clean OS intall (read: tie all that "90-day trial" crap to a cement block and throw it in the East River)?

Hescominsoon said:
After you buy the laptop there will be a provided desktop or start menu link to create your own recovery set. It will be dvd based and take up to 3 dvd's depending on the system load out.
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But won't the recovery discs have all that pre-load trial crud on them?
 
Tek7 said:
Two words: Lame. Sauce. Which is actually one word, divided into two to further express how lame that is.

What do I do if I just want to do a clean OS install (read: tie all that "90-day trial" crap to a cement block and throw it in the East River)?

But won't the recovery discs have all that pre-load trial crud on them?
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depends. some machines allow you to make the recovery disc set mirror what you have customized your system to..some don't.
 
Two Words- Build your own goofball.

That was four...

Or better- have someone who knows more than you build it for you!
 
The recovery console is pretty well set in compaq/hp, ive never run into one that doesnt have it. you should also be able to call compaq/hp and have them send u the disks which ive done 2x just so i have them on hand.
 
Not having discs is soooo FTL...My did not come with them, but I do not want Vista on my PC, because I am a gamer, and Vista just uses to many resources on a laptop for games to play well. I have that exact laptop, I bought it, cleared everything off of it but Vista, installed some games, and they all had to be ran at minimum graphics, until I redeemed it! XP FTW!

I am sorry, but from the start I have been biased of Vista...I hate it, but I gave it a chance, and it just made me hate it more... For the sake of humanity and sanity, DO NOT USE VISTA!!!

"Vista and can wait, your worth it!" :)
 
Icthus said:
Two Words- Build your own goofball.

That was four...
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Why would I build my own goofball? What purpose does a goofball serve?

And if it were a matter of acquiring a new desktop computer, I wouldn't have even brought up the subject of Vista. When I build my gaming rig (maybe next year, maybe the year after), there's a very good chance I'll be installing XP. At the very least, I'll be building the computer from parts I purchase online.

Unfortunately, it's nigh unto impossible to build one's own laptop. :(

Icthus said:
Or better- have someone who knows more than you build it for you!
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If I did get a custom-built laptop, I can assure you that it would be much more expensive than what we paid for the HP dv6768se.

Atown said:
The recovery console is pretty well set in compaq/hp, ive never run into one that doesnt have it. you should also be able to call compaq/hp and have them send u the disks which ive done 2x just so i have them on hand.
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The problem is that the Recovery Discs have all that bloatware packed on them, too. Same issue with the recovery partition.

You can uninstall all you want, but the only way to get a truly clean OS--free from malware, trial edition bloatware, and legalized versions of viruses (i.e. Vongo)--is to do a clean install.

I plan to follow this guide today to get my wife's computer running in tip-top shape. Every instruction in the guide is perfectly legal, since we own a legitimate license for Vista Home Premium and we paid for the hardware.
 
Odale said:
One Word: Sager.

http://www.pctorque.com/sager-laptops.php
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Odale said:
Wrong thread! But those Sager's are the best laptops, imo.
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Perhaps. But the lowest-spec model on the site was more than what we paid for my wife's laptop.

If I had mad cash to throw around, then I wouldn't be buying a computer from Best Buy--which reminds me, I have a funny story to tell about a Geek Squad salesper--err, technician doing an almost violently hard sell on commercial anti-virus programs. Crack dealers and user car salesmen have nothing on this guy.
 
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