Vista activation problems.

I used to have Vista Home Basic on my system, but I ended up spending to premium by chance without a product key, then now its request for one. However, I do still have my product key Vista Home Basic, and I was wondering if theres a way to download or get a CD for free somewhere?

Hello

There is no download free and legal

What are the ways to reinstall vista

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 $

also ask them if you have a recovery partition on your hard drive to get back to the way you bought

you would normally press F8, F9, F10 or F11 or Alt + F10 or 0 to start to start the recovery process according to the manufacturer

Ask them of the exact key sequence

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

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

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

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