Question on HP recovery disks

The thing is, im about to upgrade my motherboard and buy Windows 7 as my vista OEM license becomes zero, but on this upgrade, the parts that are remains a do a computer itself without a hard drive. Now the question is: if I do recovery HP discs will be that I can then in the future when I decide to finally add a HP computer hard drive install Windows Vista from the recovery discs or what I need to get the real Vista install disks somewhere? The FAQ for support disks, said they could be used in a "major system crash" but does that mean that they can be used to install windows vista on a blank hard disk or does it require the FACTORY_IMAGE partition currently on my hard drive?

Hello

HP recovery disks, check if a "tattoo" on the chip of the bios in order to validate the installation, so as long as it is present, Vista should install fine.  There is no problem with the fact that the hard drive may be empty - the recovery disks will actually recreate the recovery image on the disc.

The only thing to keep in mind is that the recovery disks will load automatically all the original drivers that have been necessary, so forinstance if your new configuration has a different than the original graphics card, this can cause problems when the original driver is loaded - if you can, keep the key elements of the material as it is identical to the original.

Kind regards

DP - K

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