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    Possible to install Vista using install DVDs from another laptop?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Kain, May 18, 2008.

  1. Kain

    Kain Notebook Evangelist

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    Is it possible to install Vista on a laptop using the clean install DVD of another laptop?
     
    Kain, May 18, 2008
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    As long as you are using your own license key, I think it will be fine. You meant clean retail Vista DVD, correct?
     
    KarenA, May 18, 2008
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  3. Kain

    Kain Notebook Evangelist

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    No, I meant the DVDs that come with the HP 8510p. The clean Vista install DVDs and using those for another laptop.
     
    Kain, May 18, 2008
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    It should work, I did the same scenario using my fathers XP Pro discs when I had to reformat on my old computer and lost my discs that came with it. The only problem we ran into was when XP went to update on his pc it would severely limit his pc because it detected two pc's using the same key. I don't know if it is different for vista but you could just install it on the other pc and shut off auto update windows on it and see if it works.
     
    GenPirate, May 18, 2008
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  5. KarenA

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    It's possible. But activate using your own license key.
     
    KarenA, May 18, 2008
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  6. TonyZ

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    It will restore the laptop you are trying to use the DVD on to the Hp 8510p factory settings... with all of the 'incorrect drivers' as its going to be a different laptop. (if its the HP's recovery disks)

    Unless the DVD you are talking about is an official microsofts DVD install disk.
     
    TonyZ, May 18, 2008
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  7. Kain

    Kain Notebook Evangelist

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    It's not a recovery disc. It's a clean format disc.
     
    Kain, May 18, 2008
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  8. kegobeer

    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    As stated over and over again, you will need another license key. You can't use the same key for two installs.
     
    kegobeer, May 18, 2008
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    The License Key that is for the HP is ONLY for that Hp, the installation is linked to the specific hardware on it.
    You`ll need a different key, or a Vista Retail Dvd...
     
    eleron911, May 18, 2008
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  10. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    It almost certainly won't work, unless you're using the _HP disks on another _HP of the same model - the copy of Windows that comes from the OEM is BIOS-locked to the particular system on which it was installed by the OEM.
     
    Shyster1, May 18, 2008
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