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  1. Linden5150
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    Now that I upgraded to 7


    can I use my vista recovery disc to go back to vista ?(don't plan on it) I forgot to write down my product key ! ! ! !
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  3. zigzag3143
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    Linden5150 said:
    can I use my vista recovery disc to go back to vista ?(don't plan on it) I forgot to write down my product key ! ! ! !

    Is the recovery partition still intact? or you could just request another key from microsoft

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  4. Linden5150
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    ^^^ no I deleted the recovery part. I only have the three recovery discs I made from recovery manager
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  6. Ryan2320
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    If they are DVD's than I am thinking you are still safe because if you put those in the DVD drive and boot into them they will reformat your partitions and bring back your recovery partition and reinstall Vista to the Factory Default settings. ( I think I could be wrong) I have to double check..

    Hope this Helps..
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  7. zigzag3143
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    Linden5150 said:
    ^^^ no I deleted the recovery part. I only have the three recovery discs I made from recovery manager
    not going to work then. the three recovery disk only contain the info to boot and the drivers you need. the actual data was on that partition sorry

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  8. Linden5150
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    ^^^ I think you may be wrong, before installing 7 I deleted my partition and then used the recovery discs to reinstall a fresh copy of vista and had no problems

    I may be wrong, but I know that those discs worked without a recovery partition
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  10. Dark Nova Gamer
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    zigzag3143 said:
    Linden5150 said:
    ^^^ no I deleted the recovery part. I only have the three recovery discs I made from recovery manager
    not going to work then. the three recovery disk only contain the info to boot and the drivers you need. the actual data was on that partition sorry

    Ken
    Actually when you create recovery discs it creates the ones you would get from HP/Dell/Gateway (anyone that has recovery discs).

    Will reformat your ENTIRE hard drive and restore it to when you first got it.
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  11. Linden5150
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    exactly, So . . . The purpose of this thread is:

    1) can I still revert back to vista if there is a problem with 7 that causes my system to crash? Even if I do not have a product key (for vista)?

    2) say I can . . . . could I then re-upgrade to 7 using the same 741 program I received via digital river today? I allready backed up the program and Product key
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  12. Dark Nova Gamer
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    Linden5150 said:
    exactly, So . . . The purpose of this thread is:

    1) can I still revert back to vista if there is a problem with 7 that causes my system to crash? Even if I do not have a product key (for vista)?

    2) say I can . . . . could I then re-upgrade to 7 using the same 741 program I received via digital river today? I allready backed up the program and Product key
    1. Yes, system recovery discs have the key preinstalled.

    2. Yes,
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  13. Linden5150
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    ^^^ thank you sir, I will take your word for it and send some rep your way
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