Installed Ubuntu 11.10

dnovosard said:

I went to this page Gateway Support - Full Factory Recovery like you told me. And when I was booting up. I pressed F8 repeatedly, but nothing happened.

Did you try holding down Alt key at boot then repeatedly tapping F10?

If you know for sure the Recovery partition was deleted then your choice are to order Recovery Disks from Gateway, or go for a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 without the preinstalled factory bloatware and utilities. All of the steps are in the blue link.

Does your computer have an activation key somewhere on the outside of the case ?

gregrocker said:

dnovosard said:

I went to this page Gateway Support - Full Factory Recovery like you told me. And when I was booting up. I pressed F8 repeatedly, but nothing happened.

Did you try holding down Alt key at boot then repeatedly tapping F10?

If you know for sure the Recovery partition was deleted then your choice are to order Recovery Disks from Gateway, or go for a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 without the preinstalled factory bloatware and utilities. All of the steps are in the blue link.

I don't have a recovery partition.
And in any chance, do you know where I could order the Recovery Disks from Gateway?

Gateway Support - What is Gateway System Recovery?

If you answer my question we can help you.

AddRAM said:

Does your computer have an activation key somewhere on the outside of the case ?

Yes .

Would you like to try a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 to compare and decide if you still want to order the factory bloatware?

All the steps are in the blue link above.

Well then, if you wanted to you could follow Gregs advice to download the iso file ( your version ) then burn it to dvd using Imgburn at 4x speed. Install windows and activate it with your key.

gregrocker said:

Would you like to try a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 to compare and decide if you want to order the factory bloatware?

That`s what I was getting at, just wanted to see if they had a key.

gregrocker said:

Would you like to try a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 to compare and decide if you still want to order the factory bloatware?

All the steps are in the blue link above.

I'm going to try that in a little bit. But I previously tried with PowerIso and WinToFlash. and failed. Hopefully this will work.

AddRAM said:

Well then, if you wanted to you could follow Gregs advice to download the iso file ( your version ) then burn it to dvd using Imgburn at 4x speed. Install windows and activate it with your key.

I'll use his advice, if it fails, i'll order the recovery disk.