I have a Compaq laptop pre-installed with Vista, Since Vista eats so much of memory and I don’t like it at all, I formatted the hard drive (not the partition for Vista recovery), and installed XP. Now for some reason, I want to get Vista back, can I use the recovery partition on my hard drive? How? Thanks a lot.
It’s usually the case that you need the recovery disk(s) that are specific to your computer to install from that recovery partition. If you had them, you could insert the disk(s), boot from them, and follow the prompt to restore the computer to factory settings.
When you buy a computer, they usually have a program that will make recovery disks for you. Since you don’t have that option, you may want to either check the website and order it through them or call up their support to obtain the recovery disks.
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Microsoft demos the new speech recognition in Vista. Unfortunately it doesn’t quite go to plan… Of course this was a long time ago,