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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
I have an Acer laptop that runs Windows 7. I don’t recall it coming with a Windows 7 disc—just the preloaded operating system.

Eggsactly my point ...

I think I am stuck with burning 2 discs ...

9 posted on 02/19/2012 8:58:58 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Lmo56
I think I am stuck with burning 2 discs ...

Might want to make sure with Acer before you continue this plan. I know on HP hard drives, depending upon the model, that the version of Windows 7 that is restored is locked to that specific hard drive, and a deep level reformat (or a replacement of the hard drive) can prevent it from restoring the backup media onto the computer.

Personally, I think you're pretty mad to be doing this - hours spent reformatting the hard drive, an hour making the restore media, another hour restoring the computer from media, hours spent removing the bloatware, hours more trying to make a second restore disc, more time reformatting the hard drive again, then trying the restore disc that may not work..

Just buy a new (and likely better) hard drive to go in the computer and an OEM version of Windows 7. No bloatware, no having to reformat the world.

20 posted on 02/19/2012 9:12:52 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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