'my' recovery disks to recover 'his' presario c700

Hello

can someone help me with this one?

someone contacted me asking if he could borrow my recovery disks. We have... the same computer laptop presario c700, but my c794tu is more recent than hers... I forgot what model, but it does not mention it was a c700... a c78xxx something w / 1.73ghz I guess.

in any case, his laptop came with Vista Home Basic preinstalled even than mine. the thing is he reformatted his hard drive... and went out of the partition of recovery as well... and you've probably guessed it... without having its own recovery disks.

so... can I use my recovery disks to restore his computer? I know that differences in the drivers problems can arise because of the difference in model... but he is willing to take the risk because he has nothing to lose really. He would have at least one operating system running.

of course, to protect my own license, I would like to ask about the 'Change product key' option in the control panel. grant, all right, if we change the product key with his... that would be ok? He still has the Vista OEM sticker on his laptop, so we think that we can activate Vista of my installed on his laptop recovery disks using its product key.

Finally, given that we have already restored his laptop to factory default OS, the correct drivers and everything works as if it came from the factory, can make its own recovery disks so he would not have this problem again?

is this possible?

Thanks in advance to those who can help you.

John

Recovery is installed with a generic key (volume license) used by HP. It does not use the license key that you have on the sticker, so it wouldn't be a problem. The license key on your sticker is some sort a formality and is not actually used during installation using recovery. If you used a regular dvd of Vista to install, you will need to enter the key to activate

The key used by recovery is similar to an enterprise license that may have a company allowing them to use a single copy of Windows to install on their machines without having to enter a key or activate.

This is why there are restrictions on the recovery discs, if it does not find info in the BIOS to check that a HP machine_they could be used to install on any & every machine without necessary license key.

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