• Question about freshly installing Win 7
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I want to reinstall windows on my laptop for a couple reasons. My laptop has a Windows 7 Home Premium OA product key on the back of it, but from what i can figure out, i need a physical install disk to install windows and then use the key. Is this right? And if so, can i download and burn a copy of the install disk from somewhere (Microsoft.com or maybe TPB)? Basically, what are my options?
Your laptop should've came with a "Recovery" disk that's actually Windows 7 install.
It came with a recovery partition which, because of a mistake on my part, doesn't exist anymore.
[QUOTE=Jonsi;26676790]It came with a recovery partition which, because of a mistake on my part, doesn't exist anymore.[/QUOTE] The manufacturer usually offers said disks for a fee. Unless you're HP, that is, then you're fucked unless you've made the disk manually with CloneZilla or something.
[QUOTE=bootv2;26686430]I've got a hp and I've got a recovery dvd from them when I fucked up the install. was in the times of vista but it's a recovery dvd still.[/QUOTE] That's of no use to you, then, unless you want Vista. Since you have a valid, legal license, you could tread on an extremely gray area and download an ISO of Windows 7 and reinstall from that, using of course your legal license key.
[QUOTE=bootv2;26687875]when I needed it 7 didn't exist yet and xp had no drivers for my hardware.[/QUOTE] Ah. My point was that the recovery dvd will try to reinstall VISTA, not whatever OS you have on there right now. So, unless you want Vista again (presumably not), then you'd need to get a Windows 7 install media from somewhere.
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