It’s not just a way to get Windows installed, it’s also the only way of recovering a borked installation. The problem is, with Windows Vista, the installation media serves more than one purpose. It doesn’t matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a valid Windows Vista license – your computer manufacturer just don’t want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows Vista installation DVD to accompany your expensive purchase. Instead, they bundle what they call a “recovery disk” (that’s if you’re lucky – otherwise you’ll have a recovery partition instead) with your machine and leave it at that.
And if you’re like 99% of the population, you get your new machines from one of the major manufacturers.ĭell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, they all have one thing in common: they don’t give you a real Windows Vista installation disk with your purchase. If you’re like most PC users, you probably got Windows Vista with a new PC or laptop. Disk for Windows 7, 8, XP or Server editions.Download recovery disk for Windows Vista.
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