I have a Compaq Presario SR5450F which was bought with Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 preinstalled on it. but one day it crashed and i had to shut it down. i then turn it back on and it just shows the Presario startup screen and just stays there and never loads into Windows. i turned it off and on again and again and still it never loads into Windows. And it was only after this happened i realized i don't have the Recovery Discs because you had to make them in Windows itself. i couldn't find anywhere to buy the recovery discs online, not even at the compaq website. so i eventually erased the entire disc and actually put Ubuntu Linux on it for the time being and all the hardware works fine although i'm not as impressed with the video card performance plus i want to use windows software and games and i really just prefer Windows.

Now i want to know if i can install a fresh copy of either Windows Vista or Windows 7 that i could buy at the store and have ALL the hardware detected and working(like video card, sound, etc) on a Compaq Presario SR5450F? i want everything to work properly because this was a PC bought at a store like best buy...