hi, a couple of weeks ago i was playing on my laptop and then all of a sudden i get a message saying that windows is going to update and i didn't have the option to postpone it or anything... so anyways after the update it restarts and i turn it back on to see the words that would haunt me for weeks.... the whole screen is black with a box in the middle saying: An unauthorized change was made to windows. so then im like ? then i close the box, my laptop shuts down. i boot it back up, follow the instructions and no matter what the box wont go away.... after a week of frustration i deside to reset it to factory setting using the 2 recovery disks that it came with... so it starts deleting my hard drive and 11% into the process my laptop dies... then when i boot it back up it said media test failure, check cable. no matter what i did i couldn't get it to boot... i tried the product recovery disks and everything but it wont work. so then i get pissed and just wipe the whole hard drive and then try the disks again and now it says no OS, please insert a OS disk. i never got a copy of vista CDs because it came preinstalled on my laptop. is there anyway to use the factory disks and reinstall vista? because im pretty sure i should beable to reinstall vista with them. oh and by the way iv had this laptop for over a year with no problems like this and all of a sudden im a friggen pirate? i hate windows.

Hard drives die. Just like we all do. Did you talk to the laptops techsupport about your options?

no, my hard drive is fine. the boot files got deleted while i was using the disks to recover to factory settings and the power died 11% into it and it didn't boot so i just wiped the whole thing... now i just need to some how use the factory recovery disks to get it back up and running but i dont know how to boot it from the disks.