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I got an Acer 4315 (they were too cheap to miss out on) Vista home basic installed. It had the make your own recovery idea but I must be too dumb as I could not figure out how to do it so I installed a copy of Acronis and made a second partition (Partition Magic does not work on Vista). Then made an image of the first partition in the second where I could put it onto a data DVD.
I got a larger HDD and installed DOS 7/Windows98 and XP on the first two of 5 partitions. I then borrowed a copy of Vista and installed it as a second system on partition 3. I did not need a key or anything. It installed the multiboot sector for Vista (and Windows 7) which was what is needed to allow access to a Vista partition.
Next I put the image of my original system in the new vista partition. Worked like a charm.
I now have a very useful multi boot lap top with a couple of spare partitions to store stuff on.
Barry
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