MS usually will tell you to contact the OEM.
"Jim" <sDS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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?
>