Getting a Window Vista Home Premium or Gateway Recovery Management Disk

[Kokito01]

I'm not exactly sure what to do, I probably will buy a reformat disk or something.

I currently have Gateway Recovery Management on my computer. I heard it's a one time use and I might just end up using it. However I'm not exactly sure if I am to buy a Window Vista Operating system cd for my current operating system or to buy a Gateway Recovery Management cd. Which do I get?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Kokito01, welcome to Vista Forums!



Have a look at the info below to see if it's a help; be sure to post back to keep us informed.

Here are the Gateway Recovery Instructions.

1. Reboot, and press F11 or the R key to start the recovery process.
2. Select either "Full System Restore (Destructive)" or "Full System Restore (With Backup)"*.
3. Click "Next", and then click "Yes" to confirm the recovery process.
4.Wait for the computer to restore itself. When it is done, click "Reboot" to reboot the computer.

*Full System Restore With Backup preserves data in the My Documents folder, but requires 4 GB of disk space.​

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[Kokito01]

Thank you for responding but isn't the Gateway Recovery Management a one time use?

 

[theog]

Do you have the DVD’s lying round some were?

 

[Kokito01]

I just emailed Gateway through that automated system with my serial number, address, and credit card for payment. Hopefully I will be getting the cd soon. However is the one time use of the built in Gateway Recovery Manager actually a one time use?

This thing https://secure.tx.acer.com/RCDB/Main.aspx?brand=gateway

 

[Ardneh]

I believe that the one-time-use refers to burning a set of recovery discs from the Recovery Partition.

The recovery discs can be used more than once.

So far as I know re-installing from the Recovery Partition can be done more than once.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

The disks are a one-time burn, they can be created only one time, the 'built in' recovery partition can be used as many times as needed; I must have used the recovery partition on my old HP machine a dozen times or more.


If you know anyone with the same version of Vista as you, you could borrow their installation disk to do a clean install without all the Gateway crapware and then use the activation key on the sticker attached to the PC to activate when finished, you may have to use Step Two in the tutorial at the link below though.


How to Activate Vista Normally and by Phone Activation