recovery partition deleted by someone long question

katzzz

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Hello my daughter uses my packard bell tj65 a while back someone fixed the power jack and whilst doing that he removed my windows vista with recovery partition and put on a copy of win 7 ( he wasn't asked to) Anyway i had a windows 7 disc for it ( upgrade) that i had bought, so i redid it with the genuine copy.

My daughter recently got a virus and we decided to format the pc and reinstall, when i reinstalled the win 7 it activated fine but there was a pop up saying it is not genuine, im assuming its because we formatted and the vista isn't there any more. can i reinstall the windows vista from my discs? the partition is gone so i guess i would have to make a new partition ( the partition it tries to install to is too small), even them i am worried it may not work.. any help please ? :)
 
If you used that upgrade disk on another computer, you can't use it on this one, which is probably why you are getting the message.
If it's only use on this one system, call the number in the activation message, they can help you.

You can use your Vista disks if you want, just delete and re-create the partition during setup.