Satelite Pro L300 - Can I use recovery disk to get Vista back?

On my computer i am dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Could i get rid of Vista then later could i use the recoevery disc to recover vista?
P.S i know it wipes the whole hdd

Hi
If you have created successfully the Recovery disk using the Toshiba Recovery disk creator then youve got the Recovery disk which contains the Toshiba image.
The image is a package which contains the OS (Vista), drivers and all the stuff which was preinstalled on the notebook.
This means that if you would use the recovery disk then you would get everything like at the first day of purchase
Simply said: Yes, you can get Vista back using the Recovery disk ;)

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