Satellite A300-1QD - How to restore preinstalled Vista?

Hey,
I made a big mistake two years ago. I installed windows 7 on my Satellite A300-1QD but on the notebook was Windows Vista installed and I did no recovery disk, but I have the original serialnumber of it.
Are there any possibilities to get Windows Vista back on the notebook without to buy an new version of Windows Vista?
greets
steste123

Hello
If you dont have a recovery disk you must order such a disk from Toshiba directly to restore preinstalled Windows Vista with all drivers and tools (factory settings):
https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
But its not for free As far as I know it costs ~30 Euros.
So I dont understand why you didnt create the recovery disk yourself. Everything is mentioned in user manual

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