Dual boot Win 7 and Linux using factory restore DVD

I have a HP Folio 13-2000, I like a lot

However, I've been a user of linux (Ubuntu or Mint) for many years.

I liked the installation of Win 7 64 bit, but he's been hogging my 128 GB SSD.

To cut a long story short, I screwed up the dual boot installation, (first time!), but at least I have created a series of 3 restore DVD beforehand.

So, I've been using Mint13 cinnamon and everything is dory hunk, but now I work at the Nepal and the only internet connection I have is a dongle USB CDMA of China Telecom, which works best with Windows.

So, I installed a 40 GB for Win 7 partition alongside my Linux Mint 15 in a 15 GB partition and tried to do the minimum installation from the DVD, in the hope of having a chance to install in the 40 GB partition.

I know how to get the boot of Linux back using Rescatux.

But I could see that he had no other choice, and Win 7 was going to wipe the entire disk.

Fortunately, I removed the external cable of DVD and has managed to reconstruct my Mint boot 13 again.

I don't want to delete and reinstall my Linux Mint13 as it works very well and is perfectly up to date, and there are a lot of files in the host partition is.

So, how can I do a restore factory, without this reformatting all partitions?

Hi Slackbladder,

I strongly recommend that you copy the recovery on an external disk partition before you try that. I'm not aware of what specifically happens when you try it. An interesting thing is that in the HP BIOS, there is no option to turn on or turn off EFI mode.  If the partition is big enough it can work.

Best regards

ERICO

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