Will a dell windows vista recovery dvd work on my acer noteb

My computer crashed and I lost vista. I have an acer aspire 3680 with vista basic, it is a cheap computer and never came with any recovery cd's. Will a windows vista basic recovery dvd from a dell work on my acer. I do have a poduct key from my computer for my vista. Thanks for the help!!

yes it will, it will also install drivers for the hardware that the dell computer had, so you might not have the right drivers. once you get in running use device manager to see which drivers need updating and get those from the internet.

no
for your acer press ALT + F10,at start up to restore to factory default

Probably not as the recovery disk are from Dell and are designed for your Dell computer. However, your Acer should have a recovery partition that you should be able to access as one of your boot options unless your hard drive is what crashed.
I tried to use WinXP recovery CD's from my HP laptop on my in-law's Compaq desktop and it would not work although the computers were built by the same company.