Vista OEM Disk Question

My Asus V1S has been gone for months for a warranty repair, anyway it should be back any day. I have a clean install vista disk which I would like to install.

My notebook has the vista license key on the sticker on the bottom of the machine, I still have the old recovery/oem disk and obviously the new machine will come with a new license so I should be able to use both.

Is there anyway to extract the oem license key from the previous/old restore/oem disk?

Thanks

 

EDIT: never mind, see my next post

 

Thanks for the fast reply, gonna look at it now.

 

Thanks again. I looked at the post and it's not precisely what i'm after. I sent my machine for a warranty repair so I don't have it any more. Asus decided that my machine must be replaced with a new one. I still have the restore disk but not the machine however Asus will refurb the machine and never use the old license key again.

That's why I would like to know if it is possible to extract the license key from the old restore disk as opposed to getting it from the previous machine.

I could use the old restore disk to install vista, collect the license key and then clean install but that seems like a lot of work.

Cheers

 

You can't actually extract it from the OEM restore disc because most OEMs, including ASUS use 1 special key for all of the notebooks they manufacture.
The key that your laptop uses out of the box is different from the key that is written on the bottom of the laptop.

 

lol thats actually illegal, and not possible

that OEM key on your old laptop will only work for that laptop, its tied to the motherboard.

 

One quick question - what are the people who do not have installation CD coming with their lap supposed to do if reinstall of Vista is necessary ?

 

the recovery disks.. which includes bloat.

Notebook manufacturers purposely dont give out the Vista Install CD so we get stuck with the bloatware.

 

There is nothing illegal about extracting the OEM stuff, so that you can do a clean OEM install on the same computer. If it wasn't the same PC the mods would have shut this thread down within 13 minutes of the first post .

 

I am confused the way I read. He is talking about using an OEM OS on a different computer. Which well as said should get this closed down in, oh, about the 13 minutes.

 

That, or he wants to use the key from the old install to validate the new install that'll be coming from ASUS, so that way he can return his brand-new retail copy of _Vista for a refund.