Best option to install Windows on a laptop with only of the BIOS

I have a laptop that is preinstalled with Vista. The hard drive crashed so I had to completely restore, even the recovery partition. How can I LEGALLY install Windows again at the lowest possible cost? The computer has enough features to run Windows Vista/7/8.

I have a laptop that is preinstalled with Vista. The hard drive crashed so I had to completely restore, even the recovery partition. How can I LEGALLY install Windows again at the lowest possible cost? The computer has enough features to run Windows Vista/7/8.

Since you did obviously not a backup, has not get and/or do a recovery media...

Try to get a set of the manufacturer recovery media:
Lost your Windows disks? How to legally get filtering alternatives,

Unfortunately - there is no guarantee that the manufacturer of your aura of media in Windows Vista.
 
After that - you can try to find a friend, family member or just a neighbor who might have a disk of the same edition and the architecture of Windows Vista, you are supposed to use (look for a sticker on the system - perhaps under the battery - that tells you which edition of Windows Vista and the product key) and use it to clean install with your product key.

After that - your choice could be a friend of tech savvy with a TechNet or MSDN license, which is ready to download a copy of Windows Vista for you and burn it to DVD and you helps to install and be activated with your product key.

Where you can get into trouble, is that if you can not read this sticker more and your system manufacturer peut/do not send you a set of system recovery media.
 
The extent of the "pretty good specs" - this isn't your only concern.  If the manufacturer of the computer or of individual components does not support their products with Windows 7 or Windows 8 (so there are device drivers and software out there that allow of such device (s) to properly communicate with Windows 7 or Windows 8 and be fully effective and appropriately used), then you are out of luck.

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