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Reinstalling Windows: Question

  • 26-10-2011 5:30pm
    #1
    chiloutus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭


    Hi Guys,
    I've been looking into reinstalling windows 7 on my laptop (Mainly just in case) & I was wondering, if I have the product key (On the bottom of the laptop) how would I do this without the CD? I've googled the crap out of this and cant really come up with a solution...Could I use another persons CD & use my product key?

    Coming off as a N00b but feck it :)


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    depends on the manufacutrer
    many give you options to make recovery disks


  • #3
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    Unless it's fairly old you'll have a built in recovery Partition and won't need the CDs.

    Usually to get access to it you keep pressing F8 on startup, but it could be F2 or F11.


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