My current setup: I have a 2 year old HP laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit pre-installed (OEM). I have a partition on the hard disk that will allow me to 'restore' my system. I also received the 'restore' DVD from HP.

I have a Dell with Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2. 5 years later, It crashed on May this year. It is an OEM version but came with an Installation DVD. I used it once.

I do not have the OS re-installation DVD as this was OEM (and HP doesn't give these out with their laptops) - I only have the 'restore' DVD / Partition on the HDD. I bought the Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium (Upgrade version) last summer when Win 7 was released but have not had the time / courage to use it yet! (Laziness too!). Current Problem: My laptop HDD is only 160GB and its already too full. This is what i want to do: I would like to replace my existing 160GB HDD with a new 500GB HDD and move from my existing Vista 32-Bit OS to the new Windows 7 64-Bit OS.

If at all possible, i would like to do a clean install of Windows 7 on the new HDD instead of upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. Can this be done? If so, can anyone walk me through the steps!

I have a Dell with Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2. 5 years later, It crashed on May this year. It is an OEM version but came with an Installation DVD. I used it once and it worked. But not this time. I did not make any Image backup, or any repair disk.

I could not get into the recovery partition either by using Ctrl + F11 I have been trying to download an ISO file so that I can create a bootable DVD. But, I can't fine a site for an ISO. Not a site I can trust. I don't want to try the ' torrent ' sites. Why is it so hard for Vista?

Since May this year, I am using a Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I had no trouble downloading an ISO pre-SP1 and made a bootable DVD. Just today, I went to the same source and downloaded the SP1 ISO and created a new Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 bootable DVD. Label The Human Skeleton Games there. What's the deal with Vista in regards to iso download?