What is preventing you from reinstalling Vista on your PC with your HP
recovery disks?
"Emerald Saint" <xp.student@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> I totally broke the Vista on my HP Pavillion dv2000 laptop. The Pavillion
> is about 1.5 years old. I am going to buy a Vista installation DVD. OEM
> DVDs are cheaper. I used OEM versions of WinXP on homebuilt desktop PCs
> and never had any problem. Are there potential problems using an OEM
> Vista DVD on a HP Pavillion ? Because it is an HP I wonder if there is
> some 'proprietary' tricks they have to keep you from using an OEM disk.
>
> Also, are some OEM disks made to install on only one kind of PC ?
>
> Please tell me what you know. Your help may save me a lot of trouble.
>
> TIA
>