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Is there a way to upgrade Vista without the DVD?

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I just bought myself a cheapo HP laptop for ?480. Unfortunately, it comes with Vista Home Basic. Well fortunately, I was stupid enough to purchase Vista Ultimate upgrade when it first came up. Second unfortunate event of this story is that I have lost the 32-bit install CD.

So I have my legit license but not the CD. I looked on MS's site but couldn't find any help. Any ideas?
 
Forget the web site. Call MS, provide your key ID, etc., and they will send you a new disk for S/H cost.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Forget the web site. Call MS, provide your key ID, etc., and they will send you a new disk for S/H cost.
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This.

You can also download an ISO from Technet or other sources. Even on the torrent network, there are unaltered Vista ISOs that others have downloaded using their Technet subs.
 
Get it from MS but if you are in a hurry you can get it off of torrents or newsgroups. Its not really pirating it as your key is what you are paying for really, not the discs.
 
Originally posted by: boomhower
Get it from MS but if you are in a hurry you can get it off of torrents or newsgroups. Its not really pirating it as your key is what you are paying for really, not the discs.
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Yeah I am not sure if I want to wait for MS to ship me one because 1. I now live in Spain, 2. I had purchased it in the U.S. as I didn't know Vista was capable of changing interface language.

But I checked some torrent sites but I don't know if I can trust those torrents... most of them are precracked (not requiring key) or have other stuff prebundled with it (illegal stuff).

Bah 🙁
 
Originally posted by: boomhower
Get it from MS but if you are in a hurry you can get it off of torrents or newsgroups. Its not really pirating it as your key is what you are paying for really, not the discs.
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I'd suggest buying from MS and avoiding the other options.
Unless you want the "Vista Adulterated Version" :roll:

 
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