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[davedudeit]

Hi i was wodning what do ii do when i have a windows 7 licence yet no disk to i claim it from microdoft. or do i downlaod it and put my licence in it.
what about xp as well plzz.?

[davedudeit]

Does no one know ??
I have a leince but no disk ??
any ideas

[Britec]

They dont seem to ship windows disks with new Laptop or Computers now days.
did they give you a recovery disk? the Laptop must have a hidden recovery partition.
The Laptop some times nags you.. the very you first time you boot it up.. to create a recovery cd or dvd

[davedudeit]

no soz i dnt have any of them.
my recovary partiton failed?

[MrTicker]

Hi there,

If you do not have any recovery disks at all but you DO have a Recovery Partition that is intact as You indicated in an earlier post then this is a method to install your OS again. Have a Look here:http://www.briteccomputers.co.uk/forum/tutorials-and-how-to/reinstall-from-recovery-partition/msg1826/#msg1826


Essentially, you need to make you Recovery Partition the Active Partition and to do this you need access to the Command Prompt so that you can use the Diskpart Utility to carry out this procedure and  your best bet to achieve this is to slave your HDD on a working PC, when you have completed this part switch the HDD back into the original PC then boot directly to the Recovery Partition and recover your OS. When done, run Diskpart again and deactivate the Recovery Partition and your OS partition will be the Active Partition.

For future reference you can get a Win 7 system recovery disk here:http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/

Cheers,HTH,

ticker

ticker