Posted: 6/30/2011 7:24:59 AM EDT
| The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. |
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Quoted: The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. Yup... your fucked. Unlike the XP days you can't call Microsoft and tell them your hard drive crashed and had to reinstall. They don't give a shit. ETA: Vista is no longer supported (I think) and that's why Asus is telling you to get bent |
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Quoted: Quoted: The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. Yup... your fucked. Unlike the XP days you can't call Microsoft and tell them your hard drive crashed and had to reinstall. They don't give a shit. ETA: Vista is no longer supported (I think) and that's why Asus is telling you to get bent Figures. |
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The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. Retail CD + OEM key = no work. Need an OEM CD or a Retail key. |
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Quoted: Quoted: The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. Yup... your fucked. Unlike the XP days you can't call Microsoft and tell them your hard drive crashed and had to reinstall. They don't give a shit. ETA: Vista is no longer supported (I think) and that's why Asus is telling you to get bent Vista is still supported by MS, but since he doesn't own a retail copy he can't go to MS for support. |
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Call Asus again.
Tell them you want to order a set of factory restore CDs. Say nothing else, don't get all weird explaining yourself or your situation, they don't care. I'm sure they'll sort you out, but it'll probably cost you $30-$50. I've done this for my Thinkpad twice in the past two years. IBM still has no problem sending me factory restore CDs with XP. |
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I'll see if i can find an OEM cd. If not i'll call Asus about the recovery disks. Just download it off the web. I don't consider that stealing. You have an license on the back of the laptop so you've "purchased" the product. You just need an install disc for 20 minutes so you can get back to using the license you purchased with the laptop. |
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Quoted: The hard drive in my laptop took a shit. I replaced it with a new HDD and borrowed a windows vista cd from a friend. I go to enter the CD-key on the back of the lap top and it's saying it's invalid. Any ideas? Called windows they said it's an OEM key and I need to call Asus. Asus pretty much told me to get fucked. Google "daz loader". Good luck. |
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I'll see if i can find an OEM cd. If not i'll call Asus about the recovery disks. Call Asus, if it's only $15-$30 buy the recovery set. Chances are good even if you find an OEM Vista install disk it still won't work. Why wouldn't it work? If it's for his machine (make and model). If not, it's not going to work with his key, and might fail anyway when it detects the wrong hardware. |