Upgrading from Vista Home Premium to 7 home premium?

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    64 ultimate
       #1

    Upgrading from Vista Home Premium to 7 home premium?


    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
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  2. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #2

    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".
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  3. Posts : 23
    64 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    ignatzatsonic said:
    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?
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  4. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #4

    ethanzh said:
    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
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  5. Posts : 23
    64 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #5

    ignatzatsonic said:
    ethanzh said:
    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?
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  6. Posts : 23
    64 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #6

    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?
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #7

    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.
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  8. Posts : 23
    64 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #8

    ignatzatsonic said:
    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.
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  9. Posts : 23
    64 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #9

    I found the activation key. I will download/burn tommarow because it is alredy past my bedtime, (I'm 12 okay?)
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  10. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #10

    ethanzh said:
    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.
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