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by nobelski8

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i have created a recovery disk but when i try and use it it says its not compatable with my sytem (which is vista home premium), my lap top will start in safe mode but i cant seem to find whats causing it not to load up properly, any suggestions?

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by dom0_kin

Does it flash a BcoD or does it just freeze?

when did you first start having a problem?

by older mycroft

I would advise that you try doing it again, burning the disc at the SLOWEST possible speed.

It may be a bad (or cheap!) batch of optical discs.

by thechas

First, if your laptop came with Vista and you updated to SP1, the recovery DVD you made for the laptop is now obsolete. You need to slip-stream Vista SP1 onto a new DVD made with your original recovery disk as the source. Even then, you may run into problems if the recovery disk is not a full up Vista disk.

Second, was the recovery disk made on the laptop or on a different computer?

Recovery disks are hardware specific. At a minimum, they are manufacture specific and can be different for notebooks and desktop systems. You cannot use a Dell recovery disk to restore a HP system.

Chas

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