Repair vista with upgrade disc

Go to Start or press the Win key and type recdisc. All you have to do is press Win or go to Start and type recdisc, then follow the prompts by selecting the optical drive with a blank CD and pressing the button.

Unfortunately, with Windows 8 Microsoft has gone back to playing around with the recovery disc feature like they did in Windows Vista. All is not lost though because you still get the new to Windows 8 feature of writing the repair disc directly to USB flash drive. Then make sure the flash drive is inserted and press Next.

After a short while the USB recovery drive will be created. I replaced the recdisc. When running recdisc. I did reinstall Vista today just to test this and it asks me for the install DVD as well. I have the same problem as Tim, Michael and Corina. If you posted a reply, I cannot find it. I have software which only will run on an old Vista PC. It will not boot half the time and wants to go to startup repair. I created system repair disc 6 discs total few years ago.

How can i restore my Vista to a new hard drive using these system repair discs? Can somebody please give me a step by step procedure from BOOT? Sounds great. But during the create disc process it asks for my install disk…which I thought was the point of this article: not having an install disk.

My pc on window 8 instal but now it is automatic repair mode i have not window 8 diskplz tell me how can repair it. I was able to follow the instructions and install recdisc on a bit Vista computer using the Manual option. I verified that the version of recdisc on my computer is the version I installed today. The disc which you selected does not contain a valid Windows installation. Do you want to try a different disc?

A recovery disc cannot be created without the Windows installation disc. In Vista using the instructions for UAC on, it says the file location does not contain the file selected to be replaced. Only shows folders no programs. The old Recdisc. Hi Raymond, thanks for the information. However, on Windows Vista, recdisc asks to insert the Windows installation drive after Create disc.

Hi Raymond, Would you please help me in the following matter! It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Krista Start date May 16, Status Not open for further replies.

Especially now that it's bogged down with spyware I can't seem to clean up, I think I'm ready to reformat and reinstall. I have a couple questions. Second, after the reinstall is complete will I have the necessary drivers?

My old laptop Dell came with a series of discs needed for all the appropriate drivers before I could do anything much less connect to the internet.

Another problem I have is that I recently moved out of the city and my internet connection is :dead: dial-up :dead: Maybe I should try to find a friend in the city with broadband. I don't know how much time it would take me to DL all Windows updates, driver updates, etc. Lastly, I recently bought Norton Internet Security and I'm wondering if there's a way to recover my subscription after a reformat - I bought the 3-computer package and all 3 installs have been used.

Any guidance is much appreciated! Thanks, Krista. Well I have some bad news No you can't reinstall vista with the anytime upgrade, and if you can find a vista disk, any normal disk will work, it has all the versions on it, you can reinstall it with the product key on the bottom of the computer. If you reinstall the os you will need drivers, If your computer still works, you can go to compaq and download all the drivers from their website ahead of time and save them on a flash drive or CD.

Lastly, there are for me over mb of windows updates, last time i checked, which was quite some time ago. I hope this helps. It's not a question of if I can find Vista discs. The Upgrade disc is all I have and all I have ever had. The laptop came with Vista preinstalled and the individual I bought the computer from told me that the upgrade disc was all I needed to reinstall Anyone else have any insight?

I'm not sure what this "Anytime Update" is. But I have a Vista Upgrade disk, and you can clean install with an upgrade disk. But its a 2 part install. You first install without using your license key, then once you have a working Vista you put the disk back in, and do an 'upgrade' this time using your key. Thanks for the tip.

Could you give me some basic steps on how to reformat and reinstall? Also what does clean install mean? I've never done it before and have only watched it being done in XP