I had to get a new hard drive without any OS it is possible to use the product key of Vista on the bottom of my laptop to recover Windows Vista?

My old hard drive which had Vista completely died and it was impossible to get it working again. So I had to get a new which had not any OS, so I'm running a version unaudited 7. Is it possible to return to this laptop Vista using the given product key?

Hello

Contact the manufacturer of the laptop computer and ask them to send you to vista recovery disks to reinstall the operating system back as it was when you bought it

they do it for a nominal cost of $

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or borrow a vista microsoft dvd; not a HP, Acer recovery disk etc

Make sure that you borrow the correct 32-bit or 64-bit microsoft dvd to your computer

they contain all versions of vista

This is the product key that determines which version of vista is installed

http://www.theeldergeek.com/Vista/vista_clean_installation.html

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How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and replace product manuals

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326246

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