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    Reinstalling OS without the disk

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Audiophil92, Jun 7, 2011.

  1. Audiophil92

    Audiophil92 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    Was thinking of reformatting my laptop, but I'm on holiday now and don't have my windows7 64bit disk with me. If I remember correctly one can get the product key code pretty easily (at least I remember doing that with a small program for xp), but any way I can reinstall the OS without actually having it on a disk? I'm daydreaming about something like the blizzard installers, but any feasible alternative would be great...
     
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    Use the recovery partition on the notebook? If that is available..
     
    lee_what2004, Jun 7, 2011
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