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• HARD drive gone bad. How to replace the HARD drive and reinstall operating system without a recovery disk?

  I have a HP with Windows 7 Home Premium TouchSmart tm2.  The HARD drive is clicking and will not start.  Error: Device not found Boot.  I guess I have to replace the HARD drive, but how can I restore/reinstall operating system without a recovery disk?  Windows was preinstalled, and I have the product key.  Thank you.

  Hello:

  You can order a recovery disc defined by following the instructions on the link below.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00810334

  or...

  You can download the 32-bit or 64-bit version of windows 7 Home Premium ISO on the link below and use your product key to activate the installation.

  http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

  You need a program that will be able to burn ISO files so that the DVD is bootable DVD burning. Burn at the slowest possible speed for best results.

  Then install all the drivers you need for your PC support and driver page.

  Paul

• Reinstalling operating system on the HP laptop which has Vista, Win 7 family Premium and Windows 7 Pro installed.

  I have a HP Pavilion 6500 CTO (?) vintage 2008 model.  It came with Vista Premium. It is the only time that I forgot to make a recovery disk, but there is a sort of drive partitioned D that could be disaster recovery.  Anyway. .. . . .

  I made one of the first Windows 7 Premium Upgrade downloads (I still have the right to download a backup).  I also bought 6 months later any when upgrading to Windows 7 Pro.

  I would like to donate this laptop to a member of the family, so I would like to start with a clean slate of the operating system and drivers of origin if the wireless hardware and other works.  Two Questions

  1. If I create a recovery disc in the current state of the computer to have Win 7 Pro loaded, format the hard drive and then try to reinstall the OS from the recovery disk, which will load OS - Vista or Win 7 Pro?

  2. see question 1 - it is the best way to offer a new beginning for the system with a reformat and reinstall OS, or is there a better solution?  As I said, I don't have a recovery for the Vista operating system disk.

  Thanks in advance,

  W!

  wgrayson wrote:
  

  Cheryl: thank you.  I had to google "active partition" and found how how to change active partitions, but I did not know after you change the active partition this restart start RecovManager...  Uh, excuse the "duh" question, but I guess you can't have a SINGLE partition active at a time, correct?

  The question is a little more complicated.  When he restores the computer to the original state, it also roll back updates to the BIOS, or are those left intact? Why ask?  At the beginning, on this model of AMD, I had a fan / overheating issue that has been resolved by updating the bios to set when the fan on.  I might have to reinstall this update of the bios of HP!

  «mark the recovery partition as "active" and reboot, it will then start this partition and start the Recovery Manager»

  The bios will not be affected.

  .

• Reinstalling operating system and drivers only. Don't want any other software and tools...

  Hello

  I want a clean reinstall on my HP Mini 210. How can I reinstall the operating system and drivers only from the recovery partition? I don't want any other software and tools HP...

  P.S. I've done a reinstall from the recovery partition and then spend many hours, removal of unwanted and tools software, but traces of these programs remain anywhere in the registry, the Program Files folder...

  Here are the specifications of your computer of HP Mini 210-1077CA. According to the specification, this model comes with Windows 7 Starter, which is installed at the factory.

  Please see "Recovery discs to create or save an Image to a USB (Windows 7) recovery" for instructions on creating recovery media. See also "Using System Recovery, Factory Reset and Minimized Image Recovery Options" to determine if your computer supports the "recovery Image reduced" and how to perform this recovery option, if it supports.

  Reduced Image recovery does the following:
  Reinstall the original operating system.
  Re-installs all the drivers of original material.
  Reinstall the HP essential software (e.g., HP Support Assistant, HP Recovery Manager, etc.).
  Don't install applications for testing or trial games.

  Please click the White Star of KUDOS to show your appreciation

• Hard drive dead - reinstall operating system without CD?

  Hello

  I have a HP Pavilion DV6-6024TX, who has recently had the hard disk matrix. The laptop is out of warranty.

  I purhcased a new hard drive and installed shortly, but I have no copy of the sytem (windows 7 32-bit) OS to install on the new drive. As the old drive died and won't start Windows I can't extract it from there.

  Is there a way I can legally download the OS and use it to boot Windows and use my existing key or I have to buy some CD (heard that a few people on this site but can't find the link).

  Would appreciate help.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Yes, you can use your existing product key to reinstall Windows 7 as described below.

  You can create an installation disk yourself using another PC - just download the good Disk Image ( it must be the same version that originally came with your laptop - IE Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit ) from the link below and use an app like ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly on a blank DVD - a guide on the use of ImgBurn to write that an ISO on a disc is here.  These Images are clean and a well respected source, however there are only limited versions available.

  Windows 7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit

  Use the disk to perform the installation, enter the activation key of Windows on the label of the COA at the request and once the installation is complete, use ' 'phone Method' described in detail in the link below to activate the operating system -this made method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who want to just have a new installation of Windows 7 without additional software load normally comes with OEM installations.

  http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-Windows-7-by-phone.aspx

  All pilots additional and the software, you may need can be found here.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Unable to recover the old data synchronization after reinstalling operating system

  Hello

  I was using Firefox 26. Recently, I've upgraded to the latest version. A few reasons, I had to reinstall my windows 7 OS.

  After I installed Windows 7, I installed the latest Firefox and tried to synchronize data. I was unable to connect because I forgot the password. I tried using the link "password forgotten", but he said there is no such thing as e-mail id. It was surprising to me. I'm still all emails, including the secret key, I used to add new devices earlier, since Firefox in my mail box.

  Since I left without another option, if I'm creating a new represent now on Firefox with old email ID. The account is created successfully. Again, it is strange to me. However, my old data are not synchronized.

  I need the old data. Help, please.

  -
  Thank you
  Ravi

  Sorry, Sync was not intended to be used to backup Firefox data before reinstalling the operating system. Its purpose is to synchronize several separate installations of Firefox, usually on the various devices.

  The old version of Firefox 26 uses another version of Sync, the latest version of synchronization happen in Firefox 29. The largest variation in sync had to do with the recovery key ('secret key') - is no longer something to see the user or has to deal.

  You should have installed Firefox 28 or earlier and then connected to your account synchronization to recover your data and then put updated for Firefox 32. By creating a new account with the same email address, your data has been wiped out by synchronization servers to allow you to start a new.

• Re: Reinstalling operating system on Satellite A100 without deleting the other existing partition

  Hi all

  I have a Satellite A100-912 and have not reinstalled the operating system (Windows XP) for several years, but now I think that my laptop works well below par. I have my product recovery CD (disk recovery) and it will use for the re-installation.

  I have three partitions on the HARD disk (c, d and e, respectively).

  I was wandering if it would be possible to reinstall (get as long as the factory) my operating system on the c partition without erasing the data (for example my files) on partitions d and e.

  I did this on a Toshiba Satellite L10 using suggestions in this forum, but I don't know how to do it on my own. Is the user interface for the recovery/re-resettlement is not the same thing, so I'm afraid to lose my data if I proceed with the re-install without knowing what to do.

  Could you please say on how to make the re-installation of operating system only on the c partition without deleting (data on) other existing partitions.

  Thank you!

  > I was wandering if it would be possible to reinstall (get as long as the factory) my operating system on the c partition without erasing the data (for example my files) on partitions d and e.

  No, this is not possible. The recovery disk would format the whole HARD drive and therefore the partitions created on the HARD drive would be so removed.
  I recommend you to create a backup of the files before starting the recovery procedure.

• Qosmio G20: I'll lose all reinstall operating system restore CD downloads

  I installed Vista on my laptop Qosmio G20 and am happy with how it works.
  If I use the recovery cd I lose all my I-Tunes downloads while reinstalling the operating system XP?

  You will lose if all downloads are saved on the C partition. Before recovery procedure starts the HARD drive (or chooses the partition) will be formatted and all data will be gone.

  Because of this data backup and install WXP using the recovery DVDs delivered.

• Need my reinstalled operating system

  My HP Pavilion p6610f harddrive failed.  I bought a new hard drive and installed in the computer.  Now, I have to get the operating system reinstalled.  I have my keycode os but don't know how to get the operating system.  This is my first attempt at a computer repair and I'm no computer experience.  Any suggestions on what to do?

  Greetings,

  You did HPrecovery disks or USB support on setup of your PC to buy?

  Support of HP recovery, you can order here. Click on recovery media and can order media.

  Hemdani

• Question about reinstalling operating system via external USB CD/DVD

  Hi all. I need to reinstall the operating system on my portege m200, but I have a lot of problems:

  (1) the recovery DVD seems to not work on my external USB dvd drive
  (2) at the start, it is impossible run any OS on cd USB external dvd drive, so I can't use another XP or Linux OS at startup

  Someone told me that I need a particular type of dvd-pc card reader. Is it true? dvd to pc-card readers are good or I need gadget particular toshiba?

  Thanks for the help and sorry for my English
  idum

  Hello

  As far as I know that you need a compatible USB key to boot from the external drive.
  I found this useful document with a list of compatible readers on the Toshiba support page.
  Please visit this link:

  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB/40/TSB4800R70001R01.htm

  Best regards

• HP Envy 15 notebook PC: Reinstall operating system - will the applications present in the new will automatically return

  Dear experts!

  I bought a new HP envy 15 computer laptop 15-k214nx and it came with Win 8.1 pre-installed with some other applications like experience getforce, beats audio etc. I want to install Win 7 (because I like it) or reinstall win 8.1 to set parameters according to my choice.

  I wanted to know if apps like audio beats, cyberlink youcam, nvidia getforce experience etc that are preinstalled in the urge again, this return after that I reinstalled the operating system or any of these applications will by default return because they are present at this moment and I will have to look for these apps from somewhere to install myself.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  Recovery media, I am referring to disks (or flash drive) that you create yourself using the Recovery Media Creator application on your laptop - you can create it once, so I would definitely recommend to do.  A guide on the creation of this support can be found on the following link.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/product/HP-envy-X2-11/5296226/model/5336701/document/c03481733

  This support will reinstall the operating system, all the drivers, all the original software (including applications on the start menu). They will also recreate all the original scores.  A guide on the main ways to perform a factory reset using a recovery or support of the partition recovery (including a video preview) can be found on the link below.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03489643

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Reinstalling operating system.

  Hello, I'm planning on upgrading my PC with a SSD, and instead to transfer all the data from my C drive on the new SSD, I'm planiing to do a clean install of windows on it so my PC as working like new again. I ' LD would like to know if I need to transfer my license CS6 Production Premium on my new SSD and if so, how to go on this subject? Thank you.

  you don't transfer any program from adobe (unless you want problems).  You must do a clean install.

  but before you begin, turn off your suite adobe (help > deactivate) on your old hardddrive.  otherwise, the installation of the ssd will count as a 2nd of your two activations.

  You can then install your operating system on your ssd and then install your adobe software (using your serial number to activate).

• How to: Reinstall operating system without losing any installed programs

  Original title: I can do a repair of windows vista operating system with lose my installed programs

  Can I do a repair of windows vista operating system with losing my installed programs and software installed such as 2007 Microsoft Offise Pro, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash player etc.

  Hello

  You can do a repair installation upgrade inplace leave within a vista operating system and preserve your data and programs

  That said, you should always make backups regularly; just in case

  You can't do a repair installation by booting from the disc that you could in XP

  read the below tutorial on how to perform a repair installation

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-Vista.html

• Reinstalling operating system inherited when the disk is broken

  Hello

  I have an old Mac Book Pro (mid-2009) running OSX Yosemite.

  My ultimate goal is to reinstall Snow Leopard, so we can run Pro Tools on it.

  I have an original installation disk for Snow Leopard.

  However, construction in the drive on the MacBook Pro is grumpy and spit just any disk.

  So I need to figure out how I can get around this.

  Fortunately, I also have:

  a MacBook Pro (retina, early 2013)

  a USB superdrive

  an IMac (end of 2015)

  who could help?

  I tried CD sharing, but the old Macbook did not show my other laptop as a device.

  This allowed me to share the screen, so I could see the open Snow Leopard disc, but I'm lost here as to how to use it to reinstall from.

  Especially in Yosemite, puts just a panel of white judgment by default by the installer.

  This old macbook pro is not used for anything else at the moment, and all data is backed up elsewhere.

  So install a cleaning / erasing etc is all viable.

  Any advice much appreciated.

  Why not just fix the Superdrive on the old Mac and use it? st - mac http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/use-the-macbook-air-superdrive-with-any-almo /

• You can restore a version of Office after a reinstalled operating system by using the office on the left on the system files?

  Basically, to solve a problem with my computer, I had to reinstall my OS (xp), but after installing my copy of Microsoft office stored elsewhere on the system is now does not, is their anyway to recover the files without reinstalling, or to get the license key it?
  Thank you

  . No..

  You need the product key and installation media.  Both are things that you should have, regardless of how the original system has been provided to you, if you own the product.