Installing Windows with system disk from Viao?

I already had my doubts about this but wanted to confirm:
You cannot install windows with the system disk from a Viao, Dell,
Hewlett Packard, etc...??? You must have the plain Windows disks, correct?

Hi,
since most of the Windows Discs that are bundled with a PC are not full versions, but merely 'restore' discs, they simply won't work.
Apart from that these Windows Licenses are tied to the computer with which they were bought, so that from the legal point you are not able to 'Activate' them again.
Sorry
Stefan

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In case anyone see's this post, since nobody else replied -- here is all you need to do -- it worked for me perfectly.
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oooHideooo wrote:
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rmsmac,
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I installed a new hard drive in a friends Dell G6-2249WM. She didn't make recovery disks so I ordered them from HP.
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I see that you're trying to install Windows 7 on a replacement hard drive. I will try to assist you with this.
You definitely could use another computer to format and partition the drive. I'm not certain about the cables you've mentioned though (looked with goolgle and you can get usb to sata cables). If the computer is a desktop you should be able to connect it internally to just do the format/partition.
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Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
I worked on behalf of HP.

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Hey,
I wond to install windows on my mac with parallels buth when I put the windows installation cd in my mac and start the installation progress, the installation cd disappears out of the finder.
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