Recovery without reformatting

"I have a"HP Pavilion p6616f desktop PC with windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I have the CD of restoration but when I boot from them, it seems he wants to format the hard drive to do the recovery. I don't want to do that. I want to reload all software without looking at my data.

How do I do that?

Thank you.

You are the very welcome.

No, unfortunately the recovery partition will do the same thing as the recovery disks.

If you want to try and repair your current installation, you can do your own plain W7 installation media and use the repair option located on the lower left side of the Setup screen.

You can also use the installation media to reinstall windows and if you do not format the drive, it will create a Windows.old folder and you can copy your files from this folder to the new installation of Windows, but you will still need to reinstall all the programs you want.

The recovery partition will no longer work if you use this method to install Windows.

Here's how...

If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. The link below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

http://download.CNET.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-download-tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html

Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/14709-Windows-7-Digital-River-direct-links-multiple-languages-x86-amp-x64/page60?p=470600&viewfull=1#post470600

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