crashed Toshiba laptop w/Vista, how to re-install?

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop here and it had been dropped on the floor and the hard drive is toast.

I put another hard drive in it and I went and tried to use a Vista Ultimate DVD to install, it failed the keycode that's on the laptop. Then I tried Vista Home Premium, which is the one in the laptop....that also failed the keycode.

When they came out with Vista, I was under the impression that all Vista DVDs were the same and the editions would depend on the keycode.

The person who owns this laptop did not make a recovery DVD.

How to go about installing Vista on this laptop using the laptops key code?

Thanks,

Gordon

[Rick Rogers]

The person that owns the laptop needs to contact the manufacturer about
obtaining recovery media. The Product Key provided will likely only work
with OEM media, not retail disks.

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop here and it had been dropped on the floor
and the hard drive is toast.

I put another hard drive in it and I went and tried to use a Vista Ultimate
DVD to install, it failed the keycode that's on the laptop. Then I tried
Vista Home Premium, which is the one in the laptop....that also failed the
keycode.

When they came out with Vista, I was under the impression that all Vista
DVDs were the same and the editions would depend on the keycode.

The person who owns this laptop did not make a recovery DVD.

How to go about installing Vista on this laptop using the laptops key code?

Thanks,

Gordon

[Barb Russell]

How big was the original hard drive? If you installed a bigger size hard drive.. Vista might complain about the hardware change and you will have to contact Microsoft and get a different product key to activate it. I would think that installing a new HDD and nothing else wouldn't be a major hardware change tho.

Did you use the Vista installation DVD that came with the Toshiba laptop? Might want to give Toshiba Support a holler and see if you can get a recovery DVD for your particular laptop. normally its a OEM install on laptops.
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And you are right about the different flavors of Vista on the installation dvd.... For example: I recently upgraded my laptop from XP to Vista Home Premium. (OEM DVD).
During the 30 day period I could check out the other Vista choices if I wanted to. But my product key was only valid for Home Premium.
"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:e%23CTPIrdJHA.4528@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
Hi there,

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop here and it had been dropped on the floor and the hard drive is toast.

I put another hard drive in it and I went and tried to use a Vista Ultimate DVD to install, it failed the keycode that's on the laptop. Then I tried Vista Home Premium, which is the one in the laptop....that also failed the keycode.

When they came out with Vista, I was under the impression that all Vista DVDs were the same and the editions would depend on the keycode.

The person who owns this laptop did not make a recovery DVD.

How to go about installing Vista on this laptop using the laptops key code?

Thanks,

Gordon

[dmackey828]

Get a hold of Toshiba Support. They should be able to sell you the "RESTORE"
disks for the laptop..

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hey Rick,

The one I am using to try and install is actually an OEM.

Is the one in the laptop retail?

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop here and it had been dropped on the floor
and the hard drive is toast.

I put another hard drive in it and I went and tried to use a Vista Ultimate
DVD to install, it failed the keycode that's on the laptop. Then I tried
Vista Home Premium, which is the one in the laptop....that also failed the
keycode.

When they came out with Vista, I was under the impression that all Vista
DVDs were the same and the editions would depend on the keycode.

The person who owns this laptop did not make a recovery DVD.

How to go about installing Vista on this laptop using the laptops key code?

Thanks,

Gordon

[Rob Talley]

I think Rick meant BRANDED OEM.

[Gordon J. Rattray]

I was just mulling the possibilities and another guy I know has the exact same laptop.

So, I could clone that disk over to the new hard disk for the laptop I'm trying to get going and make a recovery disk.

Or would a recover disk from that second identical laptop work?

Thanks,

[Rob Talley]

It "should" work IF the two computers are THE EXACT SAME MAKE AND
MODEL. Same goes for making a clone of the other computer's system
disk and then installing the cloned drive into your machine.

[+Bob+]

FYI - Toshiba recovery CD's/DVD's are a fully automated install.
There's no entering the product key or much of anything else.

If I were you, I would try to get one from Toshiba or if the friend
has the EXACT same model and sub model (part #) that might work. If
you go the "clone" route, it might work, but you need to use something
that will build a bootable disk like Acronis True Image.