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Reinstalling Windows: Question

chiloutus · 2011-10-26 17:30:07

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…

26-10-2011 06:30PM

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chiloutus

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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 26-10-2011 08:59PM

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

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#3 27-10-2011 02:31AM

Hal Emmerich

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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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