Installing Vista on European laptop....

..... and the keyboard is different from a US keyboard. The top row of letters is:
Q W E R T Z U I O P and a U with two dots over it. The second row of letters is the same but on the right end, it has an O with two dots and an A with two dots. The bottom row is normal except there's a Y where the Z would normally be. The shift symbols are in different places too: shift + 2 prints a quote " instead of the circle-a thingy @ and there's some other differences. How is this going to effect the Vista install? I plan on formatting and loading clean, but I'm wondering about this keyboard difference....

 

Actually the lady is from Germany and here on vacation and her laptop took a :crap. So UK and German should be the same?

 

Yeah.... I just went to Wikipedia and found out that it is, indeed, a German layout. I probably should have done a bit of research before I posted. The previous Vista install crashes to GSOD (German Screen Of Death) and I can't read a word of it. She said that it's an error that says something about 'contact your system administrator'. The only thing I can read is the file name ntoskrnl.sys or maybe it was a .exe. I don't remember....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_keyboard_layout

 

It's not Ultimate... it's Home Premium. I've already started the process but I did not format. She said I could format as she had everything backed up, and she will reload back to German when she gets home. I did try the repair, and Vista said it found an install and would rename it to Windows.OLD. I'm on a real, real short timetable with this so I'm not going to do much more than I need to (and she's real, real, real tight with the purse strings and is not willing to pay for much of anything). So I'm just going to get it to a Vista desktop with a format, install the drivers, test it thoroughly, and call it done. She knows that the German will be gone and it will be in English and she's OK with it....