for those cheap PC that store the recovery win 7 in hard drive, can you burn a copy?

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From the recovery petition, especially for laptop, is there an option to burn your win 7 DVD, or at the very least, a copy of all those laptop add on software in a DVD?

Otherwise, if you want to upgrade to a SSD, how else can you get the Win 7 DVD and laptop utilities to the new SSD? Or do you have to download from the manufacturer website on those utilities ? But that still won't fix getting win 7 DVD
 
Yes. Usually it will prompt you to create a backup either on DVDs or a removable hard drive. And it should be able to restore your system should the internal hard drive fail and need to be replaced.

I know every laptop I've had with recovery partitions always prompt me to make an external recovery disk/drive.
 
Download Win 7 Ultimate x64 ISO: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59465.iso

Compare hash on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...Languages=en&PageSize=10&PageIndex=0&FileId=0

Do a fresh install. Wipe any recovery partitions and other crap, i.e. zero the disk. Get drivers from the vendors directly, e.g. chipset drivers from intel.com, graphics from nvidia.com etc.

Anything you can't find from respective vendors and that you absolutely need, try to find at the laptop vendor.

Never use a laptop with the software it came with.
 
TCM said:
Download Win 7 Ultimate x64 ISO: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59465.iso

Compare hash on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...Languages=en&PageSize=10&PageIndex=0&FileId=0

Do a fresh install. Wipe any recovery partitions and other crap, i.e. zero the disk. Get drivers from the vendors directly, e.g. chipset drivers from intel.com, graphics from nvidia.com etc.

Anything you can't find from respective vendors and that you absolutely need, try to find at the laptop vendor.

Never use a laptop with the software it came with.
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This.

Not only will it get rid of all the bloat ware that usually comes pre installed, but it gets rid of all the bloat ware that comes pre installed. As if you needed any other reason. :p
 
speaking of bloat ware, I was at a friend's house, her toshiba has 106 process running at idle. Her win 7 home takes a much longer time to load up, and launch outlook 2010 takes 2 minutes. So I thought even w/ all the extra TSR from toshiba, it couldn't be that long.

This is why I want to re-install win 7 from scratch, but then I check she first got her laptop only 1.5 yr. ago. So I thought it should take longer for win 7 to act up like this? But I already checked everything else, virus, a defective hard drive, etc.
 
On same computer since activation files are created based on a hardware profile to identify computer.
 
Skillz said:
This.

Not only will it get rid of all the bloat ware that usually comes pre installed, but it gets rid of all the bloat ware that comes pre installed. As if you needed any other reason. :p
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Agreed. Unless its one of the panasonic toughbooks (software reinstall is a PITA) nuke that crap and reinstall fresh.
 
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