Installed Windows bad

I have a HP Pavilion with Windows Vista. I accidentally installed Dell Windows 7 Professional and cannot activate windows and cannot be upgraded to Windows 10. Help, please

New computers that come pre-installed with Windows often have what is called a recovery partition. This is used to reinstall an operating system in the case of a system failure. To access it, you need to start when you start your computer by pressing a function key. This can be either F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 key DEL or tab. See the manual that came with your PC for instructions on how to reinstall Windows.

This is how the recovery partition is accessible to most popular brands...

For HP, press F11 directly after switching on the device

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