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I have been trying to restore a broken Vista installation to a PC which has been sitting unused for several years after it lost the ability to boot from the hard drive. I did a Linux USB stick boot and determined that the physical drive seemed to be OK. I then attempted to do a restore from the recovery partition; but, the process would not complete. I started from scratch twice with it; and, both times killed it when the process had not completed in >5 hours.. It would get as far as putting the key in and appear to go on but then just grind away.
At this point I used Linux to blow up all the partitions and attempted to do a Windows 8 install with a CD I had purchased legit several years back with a key provided by the vendor. It installed very quickly but because the Win 8 CD was an upgrade CD, the installation would not activate because I had put it onto a clean partition.
The original Vista decal and key are still on the side of the computer. I recall in the past having an option to enter the previous OS key during setup to make good an upgrade on a clean partition. Is there still a way to do this? If not is there a way to get a Vista (Home Premium) ISO?
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At this point I used Linux to blow up all the partitions and attempted to do a Windows 8 install with a CD I had purchased legit several years back with a key provided by the vendor. It installed very quickly but because the Win 8 CD was an upgrade CD, the installation would not activate because I had put it onto a clean partition.
The original Vista decal and key are still on the side of the computer. I recall in the past having an option to enter the previous OS key during setup to make good an upgrade on a clean partition. Is there still a way to do this? If not is there a way to get a Vista (Home Premium) ISO?
Thanks
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