Creating Vista Bootable CD/DVD from recovery partition

[techtonator]

Hi,

I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 bit installed. It also has a recovery partition. Now since this can be used to restore the system back to its factory state, HP/Microsoft didn't provide any Vista OS DVD even though MS must have charged me for the Vista license.

Now that I have paid for the Vista license and I don't have the Vista DVD for clean (re)install of Vista, is there any way to create the Vista DVD that I could use for Vista clean install from the recovery partition/disks?

Note: When I say Vista DVD I don't mean the recovery disks. I already have created those. I mean the Bootable Vista OS DVD(s).

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[AmberJain]

Hello,

I think this valuable reply will help you. Notice the following quoted text from this link:

I'm sorry, but the only way to get the get vista installation DVD(s) would be to buy a copy. What you'll have to do is buy the DVD(s) from HP, but you shouldn't have to pay full retail price since you already have a license...you'r e just buying the DVD.

Hope this helps....
AmbrNewlearner