Clean Vista install WITH NO ACTIVATION

[prabhg]

As mentioned earlier, ABR won't work for you, however since you are installing Ultimate I would suggest that after you do the install you use Complete PC Backup to make a clean image. Then, next time you install you can restore the image instead of doing a "real" reinstall.

Thnaks Orev for following up. So, complete pc backup/restore using vista ultimate (or acronis TI maybe) will restore a vista's activation also??

Also, Is there a way to keep the recovery partition and use it later for system recovery. Even though I have burnt the recovery DVD's, I would still like to have the freedom of having recovery sitting on HDD iteself.
Thanks for help.

[bAsem]

oh my god .. you are a life saver .. i have an hp pavilion dv6725ee with vista home premium included ..

and i tried making the recovery dvds using the recovery manager .. but it gave me alot of errors .. and i ended up with 5 disk 1 dvds and it doesnt continue to disk 2 of the recovery .. dunno how to fix this .. but the abr app is absolutely amazing .. now i can sleep easy until i have some time to go to hp and ask for my recovery dvds ..

another question .. "doesnt the recovery drive has the same function as the dvds .. meaning i can recover from it during boot using f11"

thanks alot in advance and for the amazing tuto ..

cheers

[Naing]

Hello guys, My T61 come with Vista Business (Japanese) OEM. Since i cannot read Jap, i m thinking to clean install Vista Business (English Version) using a Vista disc i found somewhere. Would ABR work for different language version? ( I would be using same Business Ver).

[flipfire]

Yes ABR should work. I dont remember Vista Business having a multilingual user interface though.

[xsmile]

Thanks! I guess ABR will save me some telephone calls to MS

[Naing]

Yes ABR should work. I dont remember Vista Business having a multilingual user interface though.

Thanks for ur prompt reply.
Yes, MUI doesn't work with Vista Business though language can be changed through Vistalizator (www.froggie.sk/).

I don't have Vista (Japanese) disk. So, i m planning to Clean Install using English disk (and will continue using English interface).
Wanna make sure if original OEM license for Japanese version will work with new English version of Vista (if i m using the same Vista Business).
Thanks

[orev]

Thnaks Orev for following up. So, complete pc backup/restore using vista ultimate (or acronis TI maybe) will restore a vista's activation also??

Also, Is there a way to keep the recovery partition and use it later for system recovery. Even though I have burnt the recovery DVD's, I would still like to have the freedom of having recovery sitting on HDD iteself.
Thanks for help.

Yes, either way you make the image, it is made of the hard drive which has the activation stored on it. When you restore the image, it will still be activated.

If you want to keep the recovery partition, just don't delete it when you do the install.

oh my god .. you are a life saver .. i have an hp pavilion dv6725ee with vista home premium included ..

and i tried making the recovery dvds using the recovery manager .. but it gave me alot of errors .. and i ended up with 5 disk 1 dvds and it doesnt continue to disk 2 of the recovery .. dunno how to fix this .. but the abr app is absolutely amazing .. now i can sleep easy until i have some time to go to hp and ask for my recovery dvds ..

another question .. "doesnt the recovery drive has the same function as the dvds .. meaning i can recover from it during boot using f11"

thanks alot in advance and for the amazing tuto ..

cheers

Recovery discs are the same as what's on the hard drive. They way they work is to create a partition on the hard drive, then copy themselves to it. Then you reboot from that partition, and do the reinstall from there.

[prabhg]

If you want to keep the recovery partition, just don't delete it when you do the install.

Hey Orev, thanks for help again. Wanted to ask if I dont delete the recovery partition, can I still do recovery after clean install using it??? means can I still press F11 when rebooting and access that partition to do the recovery??? someone said its not doable because clean install deletes the MBR thereby removing the existence of recovery partition option from the boot menu or something like that. So, basically question is, given its not deleted, can recovery partition still be accessed to do a recovery after a clean install is done using F11 when rebooting??

[orev]

I'm not sure as I have not tried it myself. I suspect that once you do the install the MBR will be overwritten. If you leave the partition there, I think you can boot from the DVD then tell it to restore from the partition. You can always try it and if it doesn't work you can do a full recovery from the recovery discs.

[MiamiBeach]

Worked great on a new HP dv2700t. Thanks!