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AnsweredWhat to do when your windows disk is missing?

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2015/03/28 05:40:27 (permalink)
Hi EVGA-members,
 
I got a little situation here, and I hope you might be able to help me out on this one.
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My younger brother a laptop which needs to be formatted (old installation, and a friend of his installed some "unharmful" software on it), so it very much needs a clean installation.
He is not much in computers and that; he likes to spend his time on handball and school, which I think is fine, however, since he moved to Germany (to play handball), it is important that he has a functioning computer, so we can communicate through it. As he is not much into computers and electronics in general, he prefers to have what he already have; windows 7.
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Problem is, I can't find my windows 7 installation disk, and his computer did, for however reason, not come with one*. Is there some (legal) way of achieving a new disk? We do have the serial-key, but that won't help us much without the disk. I do have windows 8, so if a downgrade can be downloaded, that will work too.
 
 
// Hething
 
 
* I bet there was some recovery partition on the computer when he bought it, but if so, then it has been deleted to free space on the harddrive.

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Re: What to do when your windows disk is missing? 2015/03/28 06:10:24 (permalink) ☼ Best Answerby HeThing 2015/03/28 08:24:22
Easy-peasy. Grab it right from Microsoft.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
 
 
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Re: What to do when your windows disk is missing? 2015/03/28 07:00:26 (permalink)
Good link Erin!

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Re: What to do when your windows disk is missing? 2015/03/28 08:25:12 (permalink)
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Easy-peasy. Grab it right from Microsoft.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

 
Thanks, you just saved my day! This is why this forum is so awesome!

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Re: What to do when your windows disk is missing? 2015/03/28 09:00:24 (permalink)
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Easy-peasy. Grab it right from Microsoft.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

 
Thanks, you just saved my day! This is why this forum is so awesome!


I hope that will help persuade you to come back to the forums as often as you can. Will miss your posts/presence.

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Re: What to do when your windows disk is missing? 2015/03/28 10:19:45 (permalink)
 
Moving to General Software.

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