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Selling laptop- how do I restore after Windows 7

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by nguirado, Nov 2, 2010.

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    nguirado Notebook Guru

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    I upgraded my Vista E6400 to Windows 7. I now want to restore Vista. It still has the restore partition, but pressing "F8" and choosing "restore" doesn't give me an option to choose the Vista partition.

    Is there a way to restore the laptop using the original OS?
     
    nguirado, Nov 2, 2010
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    My E6400 had nothing in the restore partition.

    You could install the OS using the OEM DVD.

    I would decide a route forward that has Win7 x64 installed. The E6400 deserves better than Vista.

    GK
     
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    Latitudes generally don't have the recovery partition. That was mostly for consumer systems.
     
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