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.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

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

 

[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.
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]

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

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

 

[+Bob+]

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,

Gordon

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.