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    Inspiron 1525 Reformat

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by depawl, Dec 10, 2010.

  1. depawl

    depawl Notebook Enthusiast

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    I apologize if this question has been answered elsewhere on this forum, I didn't read through all 100+ pages of the reformat thread. I have an Inspiron 1525 with Vista Home Premium with a failed hard drive. The owner does not have recovery media. If I use an OEM Vista Ultimate DVD to reformat and reinstall the OS on a new drive, will it accept the license key? I've done this numerous times on Dell XP machines, but was wondering if things have changed?
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    depawl, Dec 10, 2010
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    As long as you have the correct bit version, and you input the COA during the Vista setup, it will automatically install the correct version based off the COA. This is one of the very few things Vista did correct.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 11, 2010
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