I have an Acer Aspire 5742 that originally came with Windows 7 HE. My hard drive failed recently and I had to replace it. Unfortunately I did not make any recovery cds for windows 7 and I no longer own the windows 7 installation disks. What I do own is Vista reinstallation disks.. so I put vista (32 bit) on the laptop. I am now at the point where I need to install all of the drivers, and I went looking for them.. unfortunately the only drivers I can find for the laptop are for windows 7, 8, and 8.1. So my question is twofold, and if anyone can help me with either one that would be amazing.
1) Is vista compatible with this laptop, and if so how can I find the drivers (Not even Acer's website has vista drivers)
2) Failing that, is there a place where I can download windows 7 Home Edition (I have a product key for HE) and somehow burn it to a cd/put it on a flash drive.
If I could afford it I would just go out and buy a new copy of windows 7 and bypass these problems, but I cannot at the moment.
Thank you all