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windows7 recovery question

post #1 of 6
3/22/10 at 2:59pm
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hi i recently upgraded my acer 5536 laptop to win7 from vista via the upgrade disc i received after sending off to acer as i bought the laptop last october. i had previously made a vista recovery disc using the erecovery program built into my computer.
now i've upgraded i thought i would make a win7 recovery disc but i find that the built in acer software for doing this is now not on my system. 2 questions please:

1. how can i burn a recovery dvd that i can boot from and reset my system to its first day as win 7.
2. if the above is not possible, what would happen if i tried to recover using my previous vista recovery disc. would it put my system back to vista or completely muck everything up?

many thanks.
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post #2 of 6
3/22/10 at 3:19pm
Type "Backup and Restore" in the start menu and hit enter. You should see an option to "create a system repair disc." Choose that and follow directions for a way to fix most things with your OS if something goes wrong. You also have the option of doing a full backup of everything on your computer to an external hard drive, but you want to make sure the external drive has enough room for everything on your hard drive beforehand.
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post #3 of 6
3/23/10 at 4:24am
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
Type "Backup and Restore" in the start menu and hit enter. You should see an option to "create a system repair disc." Choose that and follow directions for a way to fix most things with your OS if something goes wrong. You also have the option of doing a full backup of everything on your computer to an external hard drive, but you want to make sure the external drive has enough room for everything on your hard drive beforehand.
thanks for reply.
on my second question, if i used my vista recovery discs on this upgraded win7 laptop would that recover to my last install of vista or would it just 'screw' everything up?
thanks.
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post #4 of 6
3/23/10 at 5:55am
It would recover your laptop back to the original Vista configuration it came with "out of the box"
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post #5 of 6
3/23/10 at 6:24am
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Originally Posted by saugen48 View Post
It would recover your laptop back to the original Vista configuration it came with "out of the box"
many thanks, that is what i wanted to know. at least if i needed to i could revert back to vista.
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post #6 of 6
3/26/10 at 7:27am
Here is a useful tool that may work as well if you cannot get backup 'n restore to work... You may be able to clone the win7 partition to DVD's and make a useful backup... (Still playing with this... Runs as a live CD mini operating system)...
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