Reinstall Windows 7 on hard drive again with only the Win 7 Upgrade disc?

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  After looking around a bit, I can't find no details on a recovery device at all either. Only something about a picture "Recovery."

  The problem is that if your hard drive is a replacement or reformatted, it seems to me that the image would be useless because the software required to load it would be gone.

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