And the boot media is a Vista DVD so there was never a need to create one since you either had your Vista DVD or the OEM makers supplied a means to create recovery media.
But you are about to learn a big lesson about something about this industry. I'm unsure why after so many years we don't have an install that "installs the OS and saves my files." Almost all the systems I see wipe the machine clean and back to the factory load.
Bob
while working on a friends computer Vista O.S. it blue screened, when I rebooted message said there was a hard disk error, anyway question is there is no installation software, and I am wondering where in vista I can make a boot disk, so I can replace the hard drive.

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