Lost my vista CD want to reinstall Vista on my laptop

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  Sorry for the confusion.  I must be useless to English.

  Forget the two laptops.
  I have a problem with a laptop that I tell you all (the Inspiron 1720).
  The disc that I use is labeled as a Windows Vista reinstall disk and provided with the computer when I bought it.  I'm not trying to use it on another computer.

  Reference Dell it is a problem with a process of recovery of Windows and, therefore, a problem of Microsoft.

  See you soon

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  Ask them for a different recovery DVDs.

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  He could have more than just tough that failed.
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  See you soon. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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  How to get Vista recovery Media and/or to use the Vista recovery Partition on your computer.

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  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

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  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx/KB/918884

  MS advice on the conduct of clean install.

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  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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