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Originally Posted by AutobahnRacer
IIRC Manufacture Keys only work with their discs. Example, A Dell or Asus Key will not work with a Retail Copy of Windows, you have to use the Dell or Asus (depending on your laptop manufacture) Windows Disc.
Best Series SSD when I bought mine a few months ago is the M4 series. The write speed is slower, but you shouldn't constantly be writing to a SSD anyway. Get a 60 or 80 GB SSD for Windows, Anti-Virus and maybe Office and thats it. The rest goes on a standard platter drive.
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This is pretty much true. OEM discs are usually hard coded to only work with certain devices. Plus, you wouldn't want to put Vista back on it anyway.
You have a couple of options now. You can find yourself a hacked version of XP (like Performance edition) and use that, or find a cheap copy of Windows 7, that shouldn't be too hard either. Though I'd hope your notebook has at least 2 GBs of ram or Windows 7 is going to lag something wicked.
Also, go ahead and buy yourself a cheap 500GB external HD and start using that as a backup. Schedule a Windows back up once a week or once a every 2 weeks to that external that way this won't happened again.