try to reformat the hard drive and load Vista Home Basic Edition with a disk of vista premium

I'm trying to help out a friend because they are in a deadlock and their computer has some kind of virus. If im trying to reformat and reload Vista Home Basic on it. I have only a vista Home premium upgrade disk from walmart. If I use the product key for vista basic system, it'll work with the disc in vista Home premium? the computer came with it already load on and im trying to save their money so I don't want to make them have to get the acer recovery disks.

You cannot configure a recovery Partition; He is photographed in the factory during the production of the computer/laptop.

You should be able to use say you have.

Use the disc and see if it works!

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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