Reinstalling Vista using Recovery DVD results in error after reverting back from Windows 7

I have a G50Vt-X5 laptop that I upgraded to Windows 7 a few months ago. Recently, I decided to revert it back to Windows Vista, but I can't because the recovery disk flashes a huge ERROR message during the installation of Windows Vista. Is there anything I need to do to revert my laptop back to Vista again?

 

That sucks, never had an issue with my disks. I would contact ASUS about possibly obtaining discs.

Did you delete the recovery partition from the hard drive? If not its the best way to recover assuming its intact the disks are not a perfect copy of the way it shipped.

If it is legal I could send you the G50VT-X5's recovery partition you will need a drive either sata, esata or sometimes usb works to write it from. The partition is about 8GB and can be written to the drive using the seagate utility that you burn from the installed app to cd.

 

I remember a thread with a big red error screen about recovery.dat but that was with the recovery partition: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/415459-error-c-recovery-dat.html

Is your hard disk free of partitions?

The only other thing that comes to mind is using the wrong recovery DVD, like from another model.