Installing Windows 7 on a blank laptop hard drive

Hi All,

New to this so thougth I'd give it a shot. The hard drive on my dad's laptop has failed, this has been confirmed by tech support. He's got a Acer Aspire 5733 laptop and Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, confirmed by Acer, I've purchased a new hard drive but need the operating system installing on it. PC world and Acer will not provide me with the a recovery media or something that would lallow me to have the o/s re-installed on it even thoguh I purchased the laptop with it already on and have a valid license key.

Searching through the this forum I have found the following link Windows 7 Direct Download Links, Official Disk Images from Digital River

Will these iso definitley work and when I install will it ask for my windows 7 key? I'm very cagey when it comes to things like these, but I really don't want to spend £50 on a os I already paid for.

Thank you Maxie for your assistance. Can yo confirm i this is the correct iso to use, Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 U (media refresh)
latest and greatestX17-58997.iso

I live in the UK but it comes unserEnglish (US)

Since you have factory Win7 then this guide will help assure you get and keep a perfect Clean Reinstall Windows 7