Who do i rest my windows vista basic laptop without a disc

if you have a boot cd for vista home then put the disc in drive - go to boot screen and change the boot order with cd/dvd-rom priority on top and go for the installation where you can format your system and install a fresh copy of Vista home. make sure you have a bootable disc of vista home

Depends on what computer you have. Different Manufacturers package different software. Look in your programs for Roxio or Cyberlink or Nero. It should already be installed if it's a name brand computer. Good Luck.

If it does indeed go to the Desktop, then you have joined a very large group of patient people whom have changed there XP to Vista, myself included.This is an inherant charitoristic of Vista.

try and get window vista CD, then boot from disc, here select repair my computer console and then restore your computer to a perfectly working date, this won't delete any of your document. good luck

Start the computer with the disc already in the disc drive and it should boot with the disc and initiate the instalation.

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Well, with any amount of luck, when you installed xp you didn't erase the recovery partition. Just boot into the recovery partition. Some laptops will let you have that option on a regular boot.

Of course, if you have the vista cd, just boot with that. You can download a free vista recovery cd here:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

If that doesn't work, try to download easyBCD and hope that your vista partition shows up in xp:
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Can you still log in to Windows Vista?
e machine has a RECOVERY MANAGEMENT allows you to restore sytem to factory default or reboot and tap F10 and follow instructions.

Good Luck!

do repair with windows vista cd, it will solve your problem.

If you have a full version of Windows Vista Ultimate, you can just insert the DVD when you logged in your laptop and go to Computer(My Computer) and lauch the installer for Windows on DVD icon (Double Click DVD icon). It will give you the main window for installing Windows and along the way, you should find an Upgrade option. Click that one and it will install windows Ultimate on your system. It Will not format the laptop but installer will just add system files and features to the laptop to run Vista Ultimate.

**If you haven't purhcase a Windows Vista Ultimate Disc, check this link to to purchase just an upgrade Disc (only) of Vista Ultimate.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-overview.aspx

An upgrade disc will also not format the laptop instead it will just install additional features and add additional files on the system to run Windows Vista Ultimate

You need recovery Disc Or Windows Vista disc. Else you need Windows Xp With sata driver in It. Please try to find out from your friends Or from Acer Service center may be they will Help u.