Skills and knowledge enough that you are comfortable installing an OS from scratch, and maybe partitioning a disk.BUT, if you get stuck or something doesn't work right, you can always use the recovery discs to restore your system to the way it was when you opened the box.

If you don't feel comfortable doing that, then you should not do it. Also, you may need to deal with situations that are not covered in this guide. HOWEVER, this guide does not cover installing drivers and possibly other things that you will need after Vista has been installed. If you follow the guide, you should be OK. This is not an especially difficult task, but it is a bit more technical than you may be used to or comfortable with. All you are doing is backing up information already on the computer, and restoring it after you install. I fully believe that this is completely legal. I am not a lawyer, but this is not a crack or break in any way.This has been adapted and expanded from the original notes given for Lenovo systems by Wh1t3w0lf (see this thread).I have developed this on an HP laptop (dv9000t and dv9500t), but I don't see why it won't work on other systems.The only thing you will need to download is a small utility to backup and restore the activation. This guide uses information that's ALREADY ON YOUR LAPTOP.If you're laptop came with Home Premium, you can NOT install Ultimate. You can only install the SAME VERSION of Vista you already bought.That is PIRACY and will not be tolerated here. If you have questions about installing on another computer where you have no license, GO AWAY. I just don't like the 'big brother' aspect of activation every time I re-install.īEFORE YOU POST ANY COMMENTS: This guide is ONLY about reinstalling Vista on a system that you purchased, WITH A VISTA LICENSE. The point of this guide is to be able to install a clean version of Vista, without calling Microsoft (or going online) to activate. Why should you need to activate Vista again when you already have it activated? But that brings up another issue: Vista activation. If you only had a way to install Vista clean, you'd love to do it. Here's the deal, you're a computer guy, and you got a new laptop, but you hate that it came with all that crapware preloaded. You should get through each step pretty quickly. NOTE: This procedure may look long, but I'm just really wordy at writing these things. It should work on all Vista installations that were preinstalled at the factory, for both laptops and desktops.

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