"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:18F3C5F8-1CA1-4C91-9B03-E551ADA47BB4@xxxxxx
Quote:
> We have to assume that you have bought a computer from Dell, HP, etc, with
> Vista pre-installed.
> You don't give any info!
>
> Contact the seller as they have to provide you with a way to do an OS
> Recovery, either by supplying a Vista OEM DVD, or telling you(in their
> manual, software, or phone support) how to make Recovery disk from a
> partition that they have placed on your Hard Drive.
>
> It is nothing to do with Microsoft.
>
> "jarbs11@xxxxxx" wrote:
> Quote:
>> I have an OEM license for Vista premium and no media was provided for
>> backup or restore, I understand that Microsoft will send me a DVD if I
>> pay for shipping. Is the DVD a full copy? Can I boot from the DVD and
>> resize my partition?
>>
> That has nothing to do with my question. It doesn't matter where I got the
license I know have a recovery partition and I'm well aware of that and how
to use it. My question is STILL, will the DVD Microsoft provide me a full
bootable version?