System recovery fail

I am in the process of trying to reinstall windows on my laptop. I managed to kill the hdd which was holding the 'recovery partition.' I swapped out the drive but have not ha any luck getting windows on it. I tried a couple of .iso files and a disk from a different computer but have gotten nowhere. If anyone can help me get this computer running again it would be greatly appreciated. The specs are as follows:

HP dv6830us (dv6700 series) laptop
Intel T5550 Core2Duo Processor
4Gb DDR2 @ 667 MHz (upgraded from 3Gig)
500Gb WD Scorpio Blue HDD (upgraded from WD 250Gb)
Vista Home Premium

I went ahead and replaced the system but would like to get it running with Vista back on it. I have the code for Vista on the bottom of the laptop but no Vista :/

-Danny

 

You will have to order recovery disks from HP. Or, if you know someone who has a Vista Home Premium Disk, you could use that and the code you have. You might have to install additional drivers though and you would not get any of the HP stuff either.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...product=3686687&tmp_track_link=ot_search#N357

 

I guess you're right. I have the 2nd system now so I guess I can wait a few days for the disc. I just wish they'd lose the partition idea! Thanks for the link