Vista - Installion/Reinstalltion question

OK, so I would like to reinstall windows vista, but I don't have a cd/DVD for
it becasue vista was on the computer when I bought it. I have a product-key,
but no cd. So my question is, is it possible to reinstall windows vista or
am I tough out of luck?

usmike2000 wrote:When you buy a computer with a Microsoft operating system preinstalled
on it, the system builder legally must provide you a way to restore the
computer to factory condition. This can be done by providing physical
disks with the actual operating system, physical disks with a factory
image (restore disks), or a factory image on a special partition on the
hard drive. Refer to your computer's manual and/or the system builder's
website for instructions how to restore your computer to factory
condition. Understand that this normally will wipe everything on it, so
have your data backed up first.


Malke
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On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:57:36 -0700, Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxx> wrote:

Reminds me to ask what I've meant to for more than a week:

Can Windows setup be run with a command-line switch that sponsors a conservative, broken
files-rewriting and/or otherwise "repair" install, cutting out two or three acts of the whole
Klingon opera?

I'm not speaking of a System Restore to a prior saved state, (which can too easily, and
mysteriously, be disabled anyway, to one's surprise at the last minute,) but an
options-conserving reinstall that /notices/and/fixes/ System files gone bad, and otherwise
doesn't try too hard to change things. ME (and 98SE before, if memory serves) had a utility to
fix missing or broken System files from within a live Windows session; if there's the
equivalent in Vista, that's all I need to know here (I haven't found any hint that such
exists.)

My system's fine now; this is for future use.

Vista home basic, 32-bit on a Dell Inspiron 1501