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Originally Posted by Backlund60
My sisters laptop needs reformatting, has a virus, but she never made the recovery discs. The desktop computer is the same type, (Vista 32 Bit), will using those recovery discs work on the laptop?
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A 'recovery disc' won't help you, but an OEM copy of the same version of Vista will certainly help you. You might be able to get away with a premium or ultimate version, because I am reasonably sure Vista included the ability to install "lesser versions", but that might be something that was restricted to Volume License or Retail versions (which you do not have).
edit: Just a note - When I say same version, I mean it needs to be either 32 bit/64 bit and the same Home Basic/Home Premium/etc as well, unless the version you have will let you install a lesser version.