downgrading from windows 7 to vista with out usb or dvd

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02hudsond

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i bote a laptop that was orignally on windows vista but it has windows 7 on .... its having driver problems as they never realeased windows 7 drivers for my laptop .... compaq f700 .... now my dvd drive is broke and i have no usb is it possible to downgrade to vista .. i have to key code under laptop and am download vista iso ... please someone have the answer :)
 
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Right. Need to boot from the setup disk so you can install it clean. Replace the DVD drive or get a USB stick to make a bootable setup from.
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i can mount the vista iso via deamon tools or i usually just unrar the iso and just click run set up .... but it wont let me do it that way as its earlier version of windows

 
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Right. Need to boot from the setup disk so you can install it clean. Replace the DVD drive or get a USB stick to make a bootable setup from.
 
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Not without something installed on it, you can see if the setup you have will allow you to setup Windows on the other partition.

A USB sick is about $10, may as well get one and make a bootable setup from that.
There are instructions on how to make a recovery partition out there, but they seem to all start from a good Windows setup to begin with.
 
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