Installing Vista without CD?

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:06

Hi all,

Basically, I've got a mate's laptop that he's asked me to sort out. It's a nice Sony Vaio, but the hard drive has died. He's bought a replacement and I've just installed it, it's got a license for Vista Home Premium attached to the bottom of the laptop.

Now, he's got no Vista disks for it and I can't find a copy anywhere.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I can get around this problem I have, I can't think of anywhere I can get a copy of Vista Home Premium. I don't really want to download one from the torrents as you don't know what you're getting.

Anyone got any ideas?

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:13

thanks that's awesome, I might follow you up on that. Does anyone think this might work?

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:33

Definitely, where from?

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:42

any links? I can't seem to find it

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:45

ah hold on, think I've got it

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/08/windows-vista-free-direct-download-link/

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:49

poo the links didnt work, any others?

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 22:12

God this is hard work, I've found the link from my digital life and it links to this site:

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/3908673

I'm now getting it on a torrent, the speed is.....wait for it 5k a second

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 22:39

Ha probably like a month for 2.9gb, after doing a bit of reading about this. Apparently all Vista install discs are the same, the version you get depends on the key you use. Is this true?

We do have legit copies of Vista in work that I can borrow for a night

quackers · 19 Mar 2011 at 22:45

what a pain in the bum and i've been messing around with this all night as well