New laptop rubbish

[tabbycat1947]

Hi everyone I recently purchased a new Toshiba Laptop lovely machine but it didnt come with a windows disk you have to make recovery disks (only two) but this means that you get all the rubbish that they put on new machines. The first thing I do normally is to do a clean install so that I just have the operating system which means I am then able to put only what I want onto it.

My question is is there anyway I can somehow make a disk from the two that just has vista on it.

If not would it be possible for me to save all drivers needed so that if I borrowed a copy of vista and use my number i would have all that I needed for a clean install

 

The reason I ask the last part is my daughter says she saved all her drivers but when she did a clean install she found she was some drivers missing (or at least her pc said that it couldnt find them on the disk she had saved them to)

All help gratefully received.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Hi Sonya

 

Welcome back to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help

 

I had exactly the same problem when I got a new HP Vista box recently, unfortunately there's nothing you can do except uninstall all the crap that would have been on the original setup and also on the recovery disk setup.

 

All drivers should be included in those back up recovery disks Sonya.

 

On the "borrow a copy" aspect this would be deemed as installing an operating system on multiple computers and unless you had a volume license would be illegal.

 

The only way round it is to buy a stand alone retail copy of whichever flavour of Vista you liked.

 

Bear in mind you would still have to obtain the drivers peculiar to that machine.

 

The drivers that your daughter seems to be missing will probably be for extraneous hardware added afterwards like a router for example.

[maynardvdm]

Agreed. As a side note:

 

All drivers for the hardware can normally be found on the manufacturer's website.

[tabbycat1947]

Hi Wolfy thank you for the reply. I do think it is daft that we have to put up with all the rubbish they choose to put on I have been told that pc world will take it all off for you but it cost £40 or 50 and I know all they do is a clean install. So you may as well buy your own copy which is probably what I will do because I like to do clean installs quite often. Re my borrowing a copy I do have the license number for the copy that is on the machine could I not use that.