Upgrading from Vista Home Premium to 7 home premium?

[ethanzh]

Heres my story:

Yesterday I was messing around on my brand-new laptop, and I was stupid enough to try a keygen to get Ultimate (I had HP). Surprising. It worked but the copy wasn't genuine obviously. So then I rebooted, pressed F8 at boot. An ran Toshibas recovery to try to get the computer to its out of box state. I got stuck at initializomg (either that or I was impaptient) so I turned off the laptop. Then when I truer to boot I got bootmgr is missing. I have an old vista Hp disk so I installed that for the time being. So my question is, how do I get it back to the original state? I do t have any important data or anything. Please note the laptop didn't cone with recovery disks.
Thanks

 

[ignatzatsonic]

If you no longer have a working recovery partition and no recovery disks, you may be forced to contact Toshiba and see if they will sell you recovery disks.

You could download an ISO of Windows 7 HP and install from that, but that would just give you a clean install, not return you to "original state".

 

[ethanzh]

If you no longer have a working recovery partition and no recovery disks, you may be forced to contact Toshiba and see if they will sell you recovery disks.

You could download an ISO of Windows 7 HP and install from that, but that would just give you a clean install, not return you to "original state".

It doesn't have to be the original state, I just want 7 home premium. Could you please link me to an ISO?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Could you please link me to an ISO?

Scroll down till you find EXACTLY the same version your laptop shipped with.

Activate with your existing Product Key.

Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life

 

[ethanzh]

Could you please link me to an ISO?

Scroll down till you find EXACTLY the same version your laptop shipped with.

Activate with your existing Product Key.

Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life

Is the product key on the sticker under my laptop?

 

[ethanzh]

So while on vista, I download this Iso then burn it do a dvd-rw, what program should I use? And then I boot from the Dvd?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Your product key should be on the bottom or maybe in a battery compartment.

It's 25 characters, like this xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

Burn the ISO to a disk, boot from the disk, install, and activate.


Use an ordinary DVD, not a DVD-RW.

Any burner should work. I use ImgBurn.

 

[ethanzh]

Your product key should be on the bottom or maybe in a battery compartment.

It's 25 characters, like this xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

Burn the ISO to a disk, boot from the disk, install, and activate.


Use an ordinary DVD, not a DVD-RW.

Any burner should work. I use ImgBurn.

Well I only have a dvd-rw, and here in Norway everything is super expensive so I don't wanna have to go dish out $20 on a Dvd.

 

[ethanzh]

I found the activation key. I will download/burn tommarow because it is alredy past my bedtime, (I'm 12 okay?)

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Well I only have a dvd-rw, and here in Norway everything is super expensive so I don't wanna have to go dish out $20 on a Dvd.

A DVD-RW might work and it might not.

I know that regular DVDs work.

You can buy 50 DVDs for less than $20 in the USA.

I suspect you can buy them for much less than $20 in Norway.

 

[ethanzh]

American tax: ~8%
Norwegian tax: ~25%

I might have some normal dvds in my desk. I guess cs's wont work

 

[ethanzh]

Windows setup stuck on activation.

So I have a laptop that used to have home premium but that corrupted, so I borrowed my friends ultimate install disk. Then went through the steps and used the activation key on the bottom of my laptop. But it sticks for hours. Does this mean I have to go buy a home premium disk?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

You can't activate an Ultimate installation with a Home Premium key.

Download a Home Premium ISO and burn it to a DVD, as we talked about yesterday.

 

[Britton30]

You can try your DVD/RW, it may work, if not you can still use it. You need to buy a small stack of DVD+R or DVD-R, you should have a copy of your OS on hand anyway.