I have a dell inspiron 531 which primer not or with the operating drive.

The hard drive is good and I also replaced the motherboard.

Started to reinstall windows vista with the disc and got right to the final step and got a message that says cannot complete the installation of windows. Windows was arrested at unepectedly.

Now he does not even the startup disk.

I tried to start in safe mode.

Is it possible that I can erase everything on the computer and then reinstall every thing with the original diskettes?

http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/DSN/en/document?journalid=67E9C215C4BABD6CE040AE0AB5E14F05&docid=339949

Above is Dell to reinstall Vista from the DVD on your computer.

Above is how recovery of Dell process is supposed to work.

If you have changed the motherboard of Dell, you have problems.

Dell recovery disks are related to their motherboards.

Contact Dell.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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