- Aug 9, 2006
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My roommates hard drive recently failed. He has a backup on his external hard drive but doesn't have the OS disk here. How do I go about installing Vista on the new drive so I can restore it from the backup without having a disk? I'd like to do it for free if possible, so I'm open to torrenting something (I don't know if I can actually ask that here, sorry if I can't). I've scoured google but it's been a bit of a challenge to find and answer on how to do it. I get lots of recovery disk stuff but from what I can tell that doesn't do me any good. Thanks in advance!