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Windows Vista used to be available for public download on servers owned by Digital River, Microsoft'sservice provider for e-commerce. As of February 2015, these downloads have been pulled.
'Free' accessto the OS disk images is no longer possible.Important Note February 2015The download servers msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net, msft.digitalrivercontent.net andazcdn01.digitalrivercontent.net have been taken down, and all Windows OS downloads have beenpulled from the Azure storage.Order a Replacement Disk from MicrosoftIf you own a legit Windows Vista product key, Microsoft might.A small processing fee applies. Apart from this, Microsoft no longer distributes Windows Vista disks or disk images. Replacement disks can also be ordered from.Purchase a fresh Windows systemThis is the fallback solution. If you're not eligible for a replacement disk, you can still buy a new or second handWindows Vista system, and receive a fresh disk with it. If you have an existing key, you can of course use it withthe purchased disk as well, and hence equip two computers with Windows. Windows Vista is available from online shopssuch as Amazon and eBay in four different editions.
Retail/upgrade product keys can be used with these.iso files and activated over the internet or phone. See note at the end for phone activation.Windows Vista (English) with Service Pack 1 Windows Vista (x86)Windows Vista (x64)Windows Vista (German) with Service Pack 1 Windows Vista (x86)Windows Vista (x64)Windows Vista (French) with Service Pack 1 Windows Vista (x86)Windows Vista (x64)▬ Vista setup file links derived from. These links were found by Jan Krohn. Unfortunately we can't find the Spanish ones.Installation Instructions (bootable USB/DVD creation). In which case you will need to use the phone activation. It is a quick automated called, follow the onscreen instructions.Additional note: Any ideas/suggestions for improvements are always welcome. If you have found my wikies useful please thank me by promoting my Ideas on most of these are designed to make the installation of Windows easier/to improve Dells software services.
Please promote them by logging in to IdeaStorm (using your same account as the community forums) and clicking on the promote button (please do not click demote in error). The quality of the Windows COA has went down from a plastic finish to a paper finish in going from XP to Vista/7.
As a consequence they are becoming faded and illegible, this is unacceptable (some XP stickers are legible since 2001, some Vista/7 stickers are illegible in a few months. The idea suggest that a plastic/Metallic sticker be used instead for the COA. Put everything together here, in the correct install order, fix the issues that crop up when inputting newer Service Tags. Would provide users a quick means of recovery should they lose their office product key card and reformat the system. This idea kind of links to.
These should be available for free for all Dell users, include the latest Service Packs/Internet Explorer and would overcome the need for phone activation. Idea Under Review by Dell. Make one single file for Dell Quickset so all systems have the latest version for each OS.Additionally if you have found this wiki useful, I would appreciate if you rate it, the top right (on each page)If you are experiencing any further problems, post on the correct forum (ensure that you provide basic information such as what OS you are trying to install or have installed e.g. Windows 7 64 bit and the model of the Dell e.g. Dell XPS 8300). ViviMDsaid.I will hope to be able to also receive step by step instructions, ie: fat, fat32, ntfs?
I installed win7 on HP dv8010 - there are no help files and sound isn't working. Going to downgrade and need installation cd.
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Your information is clear and amazingly simple. However I am old as dirt and dum asa rock. I see you (anonymous) were kind to send to (another) anonymous, perhaps explicit instructions. I see thatI failed in some respects to uninstall certain functions before upgrading and find my laptop in a pinch. I did download a few copies of Vista ISO and have no idea how to create an installation DVD.
I have SD cards, USB stick, CD and DVD's with which to do so. Scared though because I had a new ASUS built for Vista (I think) but preinstalled with Win7. Was a kiosk demo model on sale. I got a prompt to upgrade BIOS and it is frozen, maybe keyboard locked (unresponsive) with black screen and no cursor. This has me in great trepidation now and in actuality, the laptop I'm using right now is borrowed to try to fix mine (both 64bit). Any kind words or assistance would be greatly received. Smiles4Miles, V.
Your excellent instructions saved my skin.I had installed Linux Mint 15 as a dual boot to my Dell Windows Vista machine. After rebooting I was unable to boot Vista, and even from Linux Mint it was saying that Windows partitions were corrupt and needed to run 'chkdsk /f' to recover the situation.That means that all personal documents, music and pictures were now lost.
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Fortunately I backed up 3 months before, so only latest holiday pictures lost.Really wanted these back and used your instructions and a bootable USB to load an iso. I then used the recovery tools with the Vista iso to fix the corrupt partition, and badabing badabang, got access to all my data again.Hurrah, didn't even have to use phone activation to install Vista, as I can access fixed Windows partition via Linux Mint.Thanks again, great articleNial.