windows 7 restored to factory, using acer e recovey management s/w

Hello all. In a nutshell, the question would be just as the title says. A couple of years ago, I purchased a gateway laptop that came with an i5 processor, a 500gb hard drive and windows 7 home premium. As soon as I took the computer out of the box, I created the factory image discs (3 dvds) and...

I left my laptop to download some stuff via the torrent client Tixati. When I came back to it I was greeted with a login screen folowed by a message telling me my computer had crashed. I have been experiencing problems with BSOD for a while now, thus why I had reset my computer to its factory...

Hello all, I've browsed the forums and haven't come across a thread where someone was silly enough (i.e. Me) to restore their computer to factory settings without saving a copy of windows or already having the disk at hand. Is there any way for me to fix this without having to buy Windows again?

I restored my friend's HP Vista desktop to factory defaults. When I attempted the first round of 91 Windows Updates, 50 of them came back as Failed to Install. I thought maybe the Recovery went bad, so I re-did the recovery to factory defaults. I was able to install half of the updates, (I decided...

Background Info: About 5 days ago I was using my computer and it turned off automatically. When I went to boot the comp. back up, it took me to the "start up repair screen" and didn't let me out. It couldn't fix the problem and I couldn't boot my computer. I called DELL and they had me...