vista system Restore disks

[Baby Boomer]

My husband & I recently bought 2 laptops, both identical with vista home
premium already installed. They came with system restore disks. These were
put aside and we now don,t know which belongs to which laptop. Can anyone
tell me how to find out which belong to which and if it will do any damage if
I use the wrong one.

Many thanks

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My husband & I recently bought 2 laptops, both identical with vista home
premium already installed. They came with system restore disks. These were
put aside and we now don,t know which belongs to which laptop. Can anyone
tell me how to find out which belong to which and if it will do any damage if
I use the wrong one.

If the laptops are identical and came with the same version of
Windows, the system restore disks are identical too. It doesn't matter
which you use.

Although some people think that the Product Key is on the disk, it is
*not*. It would be prohibitively expensive to manufacture each disk
separately that way.

 

[Jo]

If the laptops are really identical, the restore disks are almost certainly
going to be identical as well. On my Gateway computer, however, I learned
that the restore disks did NOT restore everything exactly as it was. It only
allowed a reinstall that left me needing to install lots of drivers and
applications separately. I hope yours does better than that.

 

[Mick Murphy]

Jo, your disks are correct. Since it was made, Drivers have been updated!