Windows Vista Basic Product key but no CD

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alatheia

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I have an Acer E625 eMachine with a Vista Basic product key underneath.

There is no recovery partition on the hard drive as it was formatted by the owner.

Where can I get an ISO image downloaded so that I can install it and then activate it with the product key underneath the laptop?
 
You could get a Vista OEM image from a disreputable source. Otherwise contact Acer support.

bex.cpt said:
Vista is a load of crap
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Bull. A little resource hungry perhaps, but otherwise many good features.
 
noxibox said:
You could get a Vista OEM image from a disreputable source. Otherwise contact Acer support.


Bull. A little resource hungry perhaps, but otherwise many good features.
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Yes. Like a calculator. Other than that, there's a good reason Microsoft threw it out with the trash.
 
alatheia said:
I have an Acer E625 eMachine with a Vista Basic product key underneath.

There is no recovery partition on the hard drive as it was formatted by the owner.

Where can I get an ISO image downloaded so that I can install it and then activate it with the product key underneath the laptop?
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You need to get the manufacturer's one. Normal ISOs won't work for these keys.
 
bex.cpt said:
Just load a open source OS on the machine. Vista is a load of crap
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I had a Dell with Vista on it around 2008. Everything just worked always, maybe BSOD once every two weeks or so, with a rather graceful recovery. User ambition caused the crashes as my machine only had 1GB RAM and I habitually overloaded the system. I never had hardware conflicts, no driver problems, etc. The Windows 7 64-bit that was on my next laptop was the biggest load of crap I had ever seen, conflicting with hardware and just no support for certain hardware.

I have been using a bouquet of Linux distro's ever since, from AriOS to Zorin and each had its own quirks and deficiencies. Most acutely in the PIM department. Thunderbird has a bug that makes it go in limbo when given more than one IMAP account to handle - it just stops checking mail, for instance. It also is a resources hog. Evolution PIM went corrupt a few times and I am tired of looking for something that can even remotely equal Outlook. I have downloaded EssentialPIM, a free Outlook-like Windows app and it installed and ran well under Wine, but I could not find a way to get it to retrieve mail at all.

Not even my Macbook & iPhone could do what Outlook did. Its Notes app is a sick, immature stone age joke and it screwed up Contacts, Calender and Notes when sync-ing via iCloud. Seemingly decades behind the way in which Nokia, Windows and Outlook had been integrating for well over a decade.

And no PIM, not even Outlook, is a match for Lotus Organizer that was bought and shelved by IBM.

Currently running Gmail via Thunderbird and my own domain accounts via Claws mail in a Linux Mint box.
 
noxibox said:
You could get a Vista OEM image from a disreputable source. Otherwise contact Acer support.


Bull. A little resource hungry perhaps, but otherwise many good features.
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Yeah Vista Ultimate updated to the very latest is for me the best OS. It just works so well on my PC.
 
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