[Abby4116]

I just finished doing that with a windows 7 Toshiba laptop and I am so thankful that I did make the DVDs. Very few laptops came with restore disks - they used the partition/make your own. Hard drives in laptops don't always last forever.

Only strange thing I ran into - it set the date back to 2009 so every website showed bad certificate warning.

[dennisw]

"Only strange thing I ran into - it set the date back to 2009 so every website showed bad certificate warning."

You get spooked for a minute seeing this then it hits you that the computer time is way off. In your case the date was set back to the original factory settings of 2009