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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.
The problem is, with Windows Vista, the installation media serves more than one purpose. It's not just a way to get Windows installed, it's also the only way of recovering a borked installation. The Windows Vista DVD has a "recovery center" that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.
Microsoft seems to have realized this problem, and have thankfully made a recovery disc for this purpose. It contains the contents of the Windows Vista DVD's "recovery center," as we've come to refer to it. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and just serves as a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, one could re-create this installation media with freely-downloadable media from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK kit, a multi-gigabyte download); but it's damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows' users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own. I don't use Vista so I have no idea if this works or not. DOWNLOAD PART 1 2 Check my Blog Daily for New Posts & Add to your Favorites..;-)
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Thanx Goat...
Thanks Goatman
I'll give it a try the next time Vista takes a crap..........
Thanks mate, I wish they would make a recovery disk that would let me recover the money I wasted by buying vista. Now that would be a great and very popular download
Lots of people be thinking that...LOL I would love to post that to Rs.com.
So many people are "downgrading" to XP Pro when they buy that new PC that Bill and Co are starting to strong-arm us by dropping support for XP early. Look, Vista will eventually become better. It will be the only option soon enough - new software will not run on XP.
But until that corrected version is released, please, Bill... let us keep XP!
LOL!