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re-install 7 on laptop ? ,no discs supplied.
Need to reinstall win7 on an asus laptop, which when purchased new, no discs were supplied as the win7 data backup was on an extra partition.
had made the Discs as recommended, during the setup process.
have read other posts about creating an image file, and clicking setup.exe, to install from an image, using program like ImgBurn.
Would the data on the second partition, that was pre installed on the laptop, be the same image file, and be run using setup.exe, if it is does the image need to mounted using a program like clone drive ?
prefer to reinstall from that partition, in case there are problems with the discs.
if this is too much trouble may use the discs created, 4 discs were made, do i insert the first disc and boot from DVD ?
or are bootdisks needed, when trying to reinstall win7, from another partition ?
unsure if there is a standard when purchasing a PC, in which no DVDs are supplied.
P.S. performing this for a friend, did the setup when purchased
do not have the laptop here yet, trying to get information before hand, due to never performing an install without the DVD.