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no my computer came in with windows vista which i prefer to have. the windows 7 that i have on here now was for another computer.
no my computer came in with windows vista which i prefer to have. the windows 7 that i have on here now was for another computer.
Did someone give you a copy on Windows 7 on a CD and if so where did you get the Licence Key that you have now lost?
Having just read your post again. if your PC came with Vista installed and you prefer that anyway why do you not re install Vista?
we dont have the recovery to vista but if u now how to do it with no recovery disc can u walk me thro to put it back to vista
You have to find and download an iso file of Vista ( the version you originally had ) then burn it to a dvd.
Then use Gregs tutorial to install it.
Download and follow the steps given in this link to compile a Vista ISO to burn to DVD using ImgBurn at 4x speed: Vista ISO download - Vista Forums
Then follow the steps in my Clean Reinstall tutorial posted earlier to get a perfect reinstall.
At mitchell65 in my b/f computer. isnt there a way to get the product key off his. like find it in there somewhere.
I explained how you can get the Win7 key out of the previous Win7 installation although you ignored it. Why do you ask questions which were already clearly answered?
You just finished saying you prefer to have Vista, so I provided you with the Vista installer ISO. You ignore this and ask about Win7 again. Which is it?
OK lets get things straight here. There seems to be some confusion as to what you want to do.
Lets look at Windows 7 first. I think the facts are as follows:
Someone has copied a Windows 7 install disc to a CD and given it to you. Nothing wrong with this just suffice to say you can download as many Windows 7 ISO images and burn them to CD as you wish. What you now need is the Licence key and you are looking for a way to get that from the other machine! Is that correct?
Vista. Your machine had Vista preinstalled when you bought it? Is that correct? If so the Licence key for your Vista version will be on a sticker on the underside of a laptop or on the side of the tower on a desktop!
You can download the ISO image for your Vista version from Microsoft free of cahrge. Then you can burn the image to a CD for installing.