re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:39 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Flint (10 messages posted) No recovery partition on the drive. The owner lost the packet shipped with the unit, so therefore if there was a recovery CD in there, it's gone now. Under XP you could just backup wpa.dbl and you'd be set, there were also tools to rip the 25-char product key out of the registry even if it was offline, but I know Vista does it entirely differently... On Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:30 am, jbmcmillan wrote: >Isn't there a recovery partition?Laptop installs unless done with a separate oem >disc won't need activation.What are the circumstances here? Written in response to: re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (jbmcmillan: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:30 am) Responses to this message: re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (jbmcmillan: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 4:42 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (Flint: Sun, Mar 7, 2010, 2:12 pm) re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (jbmcmillan: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 5:30 am) re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (Charlie Hadden: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 6:51 am) re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (Flint: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 7:39 am) re: Backup actrivation from unbootable installation (jbmcmillan: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 4:42 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum