Windows 7 recovery disc

[reddevil157]

Hey ppl, simple question, windows recovery disc, can it be used with any lappy. A friend has a sony vaio, and it crashed, when she turns it on it says error,run recovery disc, she can't find hers. I've got a disc for my lappy (medion akoya) can she use mine ?

[MrFug]

A recovery disc will load all the software and drivers for the laptop it was designed for. Your best bet is to burn an oem version of windows and manually install the drivers after.

[reddevil157]

Thanks for the reply m8, where would I find oem version of windows. Don't know what oem is to google it

[cunny]

You can download a copy from torrents newsgroups ect just get the correct version for the product key on underneath the laptop

[MrFug]

Search for 'Windows 7 x86 SP1' on either newsgroups or torrents for the latest 32bit version. There's a crack that will turn it into a volume license version. Can't remember the name ATM though.

[ezzda1]

On many Sony models, holding alt + F10 at boot will start the factory restore process from a built in recovery partition.
once restored burn the correct dvd,s off by using the vaio recovery wizard in control panel.

[reddevil157]

On many Sony models, holding alt + F10 at boot will start the factory restore process from a built in recovery partition.
once restored burn the correct dvd,s off by using the vaio recovery wizard in control panel.

Yeah she's tried this, but just gets a message to run recovery disc, oops sorry, shes just hit f10 while trying to boot, will tell her to try alt+f10

[dctyper]

most laptops have the recovery built in

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[ezzda1]

if using alt & f10 doesn't work,
try pressing f8 on start up, when the menu appears select repair your computer,
then look for restore factory settings from vaio recovery or something similar.
usually the bottom option in the box.