Windows vista home

[watsonabe]

Hello, I have a dell inspiron 531s that I had to replace the hard drive in, but I dont have the vista CD to reinstall the OS. What can I do without spending a bunch of money

 

[nhasian]

Ubuntu and Fedora are operating systems based on the Linux kernel. There are many operating systems that use the Linux kernel (sometimes these are called "Linux distros"). I recommend either Fedora 17 or Ubuntu 12.04.

How to install Ubuntu 12.04

How to install Fedora 17