Vista CD???

**Ferrit** · December 28th, 2007, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by xpuser357

No upgrade cd or anything except power plug to transformer, and battery.
Did receive E-mail and they said could not ship recovery cd per license
with MICROSOFT. So I can assume that they purchased one physical
vista CD. And loaded a bunch of laptops and maybe desktops. of course they paid microsoft for each one to obtain sticker with product key.Yeah they told me about how to back up. first computer I know of that did not come
with cd. when loaded with windows.

That sounds pretty unreal because in the last 2 years i have sold 30 Acer laptops and all of the xp ones came with restore cds and driver cds and as I said all of the vista ones had the vista upgrade cd

**xpuser357** · December 28th, 2007, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by CCT

You never did say what Acer model!

The Microsoft site I linked basically says 'Hey - if you are screwed up, just load someone elses stuff and key, then, within 30 days, change the key'.

edit: and the other stuff HAS to be the same stuff you had

Aspire 5315, I do not know anyone that has Vista home basic, that has a CD
even. that I could borrow and burn a copy.

**xpuser357** · December 29th, 2007, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

That sounds pretty unreal because in the last 2 years i have sold 30 Acer laptops and all of the xp ones came with restore cds and driver cds and as I said all of the vista ones had the vista upgrade cd

Yeah definately unreal. It say`s in e-mail that I can make restore cd
that will put laptop back to factory condition. I used DVD`s since DVD burner
but program does not give you time stamp (how long it will take ) 7 cd`s
or two dvd`s It promps. And when using dvd, after I will say 8 minutes it will eject cd and ask for next cd, I push it back in and hit ok and off it goes then pops out after another 8 minutes, Very screwy when you do not know how much is left to put on cd. there is a next button but it is greyed out until
you finish burning. I will keep trying.

**NooNoo** · December 29th, 2007, 04:16 AM

It should only let you burn one copy of the restore image (which you can then do a disk to disk copy if need be).

If it's not working, get back on to them and find out what you do next. BTW I don't think that Microsoft say you cannot have a OS disk. After all, what happens if the hard drive dies?

**xpuser357** · December 29th, 2007, 11:25 AM

That was my first question

They do state that back up will reformat computer if need be. But on new drive Does the disk have a AUTO RUN exe.
or do you have to go D: setup. I am going to contact them again, they said
on e-mail I can open case if not satisfied.

**NooNoo** · December 29th, 2007, 11:43 AM

The cd should be bootable and it should have an option to back out. I would test it if you have sucessfully burned the cds.

**xpuser357** · January 7th, 2008, 07:31 AM

Called Acer tech support and was told. recovery disks will be shipped
They have a backorder. Should get them in 6 or 7 day`s.

**Ferrit** · January 7th, 2008, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by xpuser357

Called Acer tech support and was told. recovery disks will be shipped
They have a backorder. Should get them in 6 or 7 day`s.

great news I figured they would cough up.
There are supposed to be the disks you need.
All of them i sold as I said had the disks

**xpuser357** · January 7th, 2008, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

great news I figured they would cough up.
There are supposed to be the disks you need.
All of them i sold as I said had the disks

It`s like the noisy wheel gets greased.

What about the ones that do not call for the CD`s. I guess they are out of luck.

**merlinsghost** · January 7th, 2008, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

There are different types of vista (at different prices). Hence you must use the right type installation CD. Kinda like the difference between XP home and Xp Pro.

This isn't entirely accurate any more.

With Windows Vista, MS changed the way Windows installations work; it now uses a Pre-boot Execution Environment - or PXE (Pixie) - to load Windows using "WIM" files (Windows Imaging Format) and ImageX. Instead of sector-based image formats for their DVD's, WIM is file-based. Given this, they are able to cross-reference files, folders, and settings (among other things) in their WIM files, so that they are able to include every version of Windows Vista on the Windows Vista DVD without having to store the same data twice (there are reference pointers as-needed for files needed by one installation; so, in essence the files are stored once, with a pointer to those files in other 'images' of the WIM file...boy I hope that made sense). The Key is what unlocks what version(s) you can install.

It is a really cool enhancement, and allows network administrators to quickly and relatively easily roll out machines; it even supports Wake-on LAN and LAN setup, auto setup, etc. etc. so you can literally plug a computer into a network and have it loaded with a Windows Vista image (that ignores the HAL by the way, so you can use any hardware you want). In some cases (if the BIOS supports it) you don't even have to power the computer on. (This requires a properly configured server, of course.)

Every time you install Vista, you use a WIM file, and a "pre-configured" version of Vista, minus drivers.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905070.aspx

See also:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...pFiles/?loc=en

Cheers.

**NooNoo** · January 8th, 2008, 03:58 AM

That's not entirely true either...it applies to volume licencing and from the point of view of enterprise business, it's great. Retail versions, I agree, every version you need is on the DVD BUT OEM (that you can buy over the counter with a hardware purchase) you have to choose between 32bit or 64bit and, recovery versions from brands like ACER and Dell include their own drivers and activation.