get a copy of Vista OEM or reinstall an ACER laptop.

I have a situation, where I'd like to perform a recovery on an ACER laptop to restore factory settings, however I have no CD to go with it. I have a long history here, perhaps someone more familiar with laptops and Vista installation can suggest where to begin the search, or the place where process? I am VERY familiar with the repair of Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP is installed on desktop computers, but you don't master with Vista. I also have little experience with laptops and am not sure if the laptop has a recovery partition which can restore the factory settings or if it's just a thing of emergency repair, as my investigation into what was wrong with the laptop was a little weird. I'll do a post that is a bit of a long story, but it should show my process of thought as well as my skill level. I spent

A knowledge of my friends has recently undergone a crash of hard disk on his laptop computer, although he didn't know exactly what was the problem at the time. Fortunately there is nothing on the drive that does not saved except for the OS.

At first glance, it appeared that the hard drive was bad, and he went out and bought a new laptop. Outings, I was informed about this and they asked if I wanted this one for parts or to try to fix it if I could.

After receiving the laptop, I decided to check what was wrong. I tried to turn on immediately, before even to sort out the power cord, but nothing happened. He was dead. The laptop was unused for several days before being delivered to me. Thinking that was the problem, I have dispaired that I never changed a power supply in a laptop. However, for the heck of it, I plugged in the power cord and to my surprise, it started. This dead battery may be important later.

He has been starting some sort of partition repair which gave me access to repair system I since lost access to. The thing was, when I got to the screen that says "System Recovery Options" with the "motor load' and 'next' boxes at the bottom, no OS installs were neither were all partitions.

I got to the menu where it gave me options, with "command prompt" downstairs. I just assumed it was like the XP Recovery console and I tried to use it as such.

They gave me a "X:\windows\system32" prompt, which I thought was weird, because it's the X drive instead of drive C. The people in question can barely use a computer, so they would not have reassigned the drive letter.

I did dir c: and had an error on drive c. be corrupted. Also, I did a dir d: and get "file not found" that seemed weird. It turns out that the E drive was the dvd - rom, then I discovered. Other letters gave errors and invalid letters.

I decided to start with the basics, and I used the command chkdsk on drives C and D. To my surprise, that seemed to do the trick, and after restart I was taken in the Welcome screen.

Restart at first seemed to be a mistake, as I have since not managed to find a way to return to this menu of repair and subsequent attempts through the Vista Start menu (or whatever you call the menu that is displayed when hitting F8 these days.) Its name has changed between Windows 95 and xP) need the administrator password.

I was to call back them and get the password from them, and I'd have to try to use one of the solutions 'password lost admin, cannot connect', I didn't know if it would be a good idea on a potentially damaged system of mud autour with registry hacks.

At that time, it was late in the day and I had a few other things to do. I decided to start with Windows Defender antivirus scans and the tread Micro antivirus, that have been installed. He had a subscription to the microphone of the tread, so I connected the laptop to my programmer, updated definitions and performed a full scan.

The two negative came scans, with the exception of a few tracking cookies. At this point, it was late and I was tiered, so I all stop and went to bed. I had disconnected the laptop to my switch and it sat in my bedroom next to the bed.

Around 01:00 a.m., I was awakened by a strong and heard the WHIR of the laptop sounds beep. The computer had apparently turned on, but when I opened the file, the screen doesn't have to turn on. Think of some sort of virus or Trojan was at fault, since a disconnected laptop should be on NOT himself in the middle of the night, I hit the power button to turn it off, and he succeeded.

In the morning, I tried to install malwarebytes and run a scan and it found several things he called Trojan horses, as well as some adware. I removed it.

I have found it useful to keep on the laptop, and rather than to try to clean it up, I would like to reinstall from scratch.

I looked on the internet and found that most Acer laptops should have their accessible restore partitions by pressing control-f10 or alt + f10.

Here's the strange thing. I did, and it started working. However, I had a Windows XP startup screen and it says "Windows XP".

The laptop is running Vista Home Premium, and there a House premium sticker product key OEM on the bottom. If the recovery partition installed XP and asks me a product key XP, I'm GROUND.

I have an OEM copy of Vista, but it's for a 4200DX gateway. Somehow I doubt that it will help you for the upgrade of the Vista laptop. Any suggestions?

Jumped the gun in the abandonment of the XP, need it install Vista?

The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5570Z according to the engraving on the front.

On the back it says:

MFG. Date: 0706 Aspire 5570-2067

Yes, suggestions? I could try to clean install, but it is probably better to start from scratch. On the other hand, have XP is probably a better choice, because the laptop has only 1 GB of RAM. Possibility to choose, I would choose XP on 7 or Vistafor this computer, but which leaves me with the problem of a product key.

If the recovery partition is indeed a XP product key, is it possible that Microsoft would leave me to transfer the license from a dead Tower brand OEM copy of XP home to this laptop? I doubt that the key of this death dell sticker product could work on this laptop, but it would be worth it. I need a new key, and they could indicate the old key as invalid with Windows Genuine Advantage and refuse to turn it on.

Suggest that call you Acer to see if they can make any sense out of it.

Some restore partitions when launched as the emachines PC (I fixed in the last days) installed XP preactivated and no key was needed.

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Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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"How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and replace product manuals.

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Do you mean that you have a partition without a name of 8 GB and then a C: partition that contains your operating system? If this is the case, regardless of the question whether she says that you have 100% free space (my recovery partition is 18 GB (Windows 7) and it also says that the drive is empty, but is not) files are obviously hidden. I suggest that you try to boot your machine and by pressing F11 (I think) to see if it displays a menu to restore your system to factory conditions.

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I just had on the phone speaking to the people of Microsoft online help. After some discussion and blaming 'SLUI 4' (according to instructions), I am still unable to validate (activate) my legal copy of Windows and the Lady on the phone told me to come on this forum to help! ~ (What joke Microsoft management!) ~ She said she was unable to help because my copy of Vista is an OEM version and she said I need to contact the manufacturer. I said, the manufacturer was no longer in business, so now what? She said to go on the forums. So here I am!

Also, I think the first why I cannot now turn on Vista it's because the PC has had a few different hard disks over the years and during the summer I had to replace the power supply that the original has stopped working. I had a similar problem with another PC a few years ago and it has been easily resolved on the phone speaking with MS online help, but now's done it a lot more difficult for me (using this forum) that I am dyslexic and find writing and reading indeed very laborious.

In any case, I have reviewed the above and tried a few things, but none have worked for me. Then, please, make my life livable explaining what can I do to activate my Vista in simple terms?

Is received the following message when you try to validate my copy of Vista after a clean re-installation:

"The product key you entered is already in use.

Reasons can be: a new power supply & different hard drives have been installed by myself.

Please, please help!

Best regards & thanks a lot, a lot.

November 10, 2015.

Hi all

As indicated, I wiped the hard drive, re-partitioned and formatted just to make sure he was completely clean and there is no hidden bad guys or persistent files corrupted, etc.. I then reinstalled Windows Vista, did a few main, graphics drivers updates, etc and then tried to 'turn on' online.

The bad news is that it still not be accepted and once more displayed: "the product key you entered is already in use. So, I was a little irritated but not totally surprised, because if there is one thing that I've noticed over the years that Windows operating system are very compatible with their annoying messages! ~ However, this is not the end, read on:

As you do on these occasions, I thought then of what could be done then that I have not already tried? ~ Well I have to say now that my reason to reinstall Vista is not because I have no desire burning back somehow, it is finally to Windows 10. But before I could do I need to install a "Windows 7 Upgrade" I bought in 2010 when my son was in college.

This got me wondering if the message could be related in some way, to upgrade? Twenty minutes after that, my son came into the room and offers exactly the same thing! Without hesitation, I installed Windows 7 Upgrade and tried to validate online and hey-presto it worked!

So, for anyone else having similar problems with a re-installation and who have also used a version upgrade of Windows later, is probably the answer ~ if all else fails. Thus, 14 lb hammer remained in the garage!

I am glade to say that the problem of Vista activation/validation is now resolved, even better Windows 10 is installed.

A big thank you to all who tried to help with this annoyance.

Best regards

November 13, 2015.

10:40hrs (GMT).

Of course, if you can not trouble Windows then try this: http://distrowatch.com.

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Hello

There is no Windows Vista downloads available from Microsoft.

You can contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send you a set of recovery disks.

They should do this for a small fee.

To reinstall Vista using their recovery disk/s, you start from the 1st recovery disk they provide and follow the manufacturer's instructions to reinstall:

You need to change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order:

How to change the Boot order in BIOS:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/SS/bootorderchange.htm

"How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and replace product manuals.

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326246

Some manufacturers have more available Vista recovery disks.

If this happens, you may need to try this instead:

You can also borrow and use a Microsoft Vista DVD, which contains the files for the different editions of Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate) must be installed. The product key on your computer / Laptop box determines what Edition is installed.

Other manufacturers recovery DVDs are should not be used for this purpose.

And you need to know the version of 'bit' for Vista, as 32-bit and 64-bit editions come on different DVDs

Here's how to do a clean install of Vista using a DVD of Vista from Microsoft:

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http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-Vista.html

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And phone Activation may be necessary when you use the above installation method.

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