Confused about my version of Windows

Hi all

this is probably a really basic question. I bought my laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. It didn't come with an CD (in fact it doesn't even have a CD/DVD player - it's a netbook).

Recently I started having disk corruption problems, and now it looks like my HDD is about to permanently fail (checked with Crystal Disk info, and have been unable to take a disk image with either Macrium Reflect or Acronis True Image due to disk errors), so I've just bought a replacement SSD, which I hope to install this weekend. I have a Recovery USB that I built and installed from Windows 7 Direct Download Links, Official Disk Images from Digital River

Because I haven't got a disk image to restore from, I've obviously going to have to do a fresh install of Windows. My question is: how does it work? Do I need to buy another version of Windows or is my licence still good?

thanks for any advice!

Hi,
I'm sure the device has a usb port
That is what you would download windows home premium on and boot to that to do a repair install or fresh install,

Others are more familiar with the exact process and I'll leave that to them to correct me but that the basics,
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html
Cheers.

Hi,
Yes you would substitute every reference to a disk for your flask drive
Make a clear note of which port letter your flash drive appears as D-E-F-... because that's what you'd be booting to
Cheers.