G51VX-RX05 Recovery DVD "ERROR"

So, I have a G51VX and I decided I wanted to try RAID0 since it can do that.. I got 2 identical 160GB 7200 drives and it creates the RAID0 volume perfectly and I can load a generic copy of W7 on it without ANY issues.. However, I don't want to buy another W7 license just yet and I want to put the licensed Vista back on it (also, in case I end up selling it..). When I try to do a restore from the recovery DVD's (which are brand new and were first taken out of the sleeve when I went to try this) it gets to the point where it asks me how I want to recover to the drive, and no matter what I choose it goes to a white screen with ERROR in big red letters and tells me it can't read from the file.. it does this if I start with DVD 1 or DVD 2. I've searched and found this on numerous postings, but nothing has worked, I've blanked the drives completely, recreated partitions, even gone back to a single drive not using RAID and even "compatability" on the SATA and nothing works, yet W7 loads fine. This has to be some sort of product checking to make sure I'm not trying to load the OS on another PC, but they broke something somewhere. Anyone know of a real fix for this?

 

Oh.. and when I called ASUS "Tech Support" they told me I have to RMA the entire laptop to get it fixed.

 

If by any chance you still have the 320gb original drive, i think it came with a recovery partition (i never used it) but from there you could use a cdkey extractor like orevs, and just use it after you swap/raid/format/install. I used orev twice now since i formated once and then when i switch to my ssd, and it work great.

If you dont have the orignal hdd and your recovery disk dont work, you can still use the key on the sticker at bottom of your laptop, which is different than the one inside your OS.

 

Even if I extracted my Product Key I would still need an ASUS OEM Vista Home Premium DVD.. which I don't have. I tried my Key (on the sticker) with a generic Vista OEM DVD and it didn't work.