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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. |
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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
On 04/03/2011 04:21 PM, C.M. Burns wrote:
Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. Considering how inexpensive hard drives are... I'd just clone the drive |
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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
On 4/3/2011 5:21 PM, C.M. Burns wrote:
Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. Go here and let Acer tell you how. http://support.acer.com/us/en/default.aspx |
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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
"C.M. Burns" wrote in message ... Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. Normally, when you purchase an Acer desktop or laptop, there is a hidden partition containing the installation or recovery disc and a complete user guide. With not only Windows, but also the needed drivers and additional Acer software and tools. In the box you should also find a quick start guide explaining how to create your own installation / recovery dvd(s). |
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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
On 4/3/2011 4:57 PM, ElJerid wrote:
"C.M. Burns" wrote in message ... Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. Normally, when you purchase an Acer desktop or laptop, there is a hidden partition containing the installation or recovery disc and a complete user guide. With not only Windows, but also the needed drivers and additional Acer software and tools. In the box you should also find a quick start guide explaining how to create your own installation / recovery dvd(s). I'll reinforce this with the observation that I know this to be true on a different, recently purchased, Acer laptop. |
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How to create Windows 7 installation disc?
C.M. Burns wrote:
Subject: How to create Windows 7 installation disc? System: Acer Aspire w/ Windows 7 preinstalled I just bought an Acer Aspire desktop PC that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled on the hard drive; however, there is no installation DVD. If my hard drive fails, how can I reinstall Windows on another drive? Is there a way to make a bootable installation DVD? TIA. There are two kinds of devices, laptops and "netbooks". I have an Acer laptop. It was given to me at the end of last year. The laptop has two things you're supposed to do when you get the unit. 1) Acer provides a recovery partition on the hard drive. And includes an application to burn 3 DVD images, plus a "drivers" DVD. The 3 DVD images would correspond to Windows 7. There are lots of files with extension .swm on those discs. And I haven't looked at the "drivers" DVD yet, to see what is on there. So that is a total of 4 DVDs. 2) Microsoft offers a menu item in Windows 7, to burn a fifth disc. That disc is a recovery console (command prompt) bootable CD. Using that CD, if you need an MSDOS-style window to work in, when your Windows 7 partition is broken, that CD is the one to use. It's only a couple hundred megabytes in size. It is equivalent to this: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/window...-repair-discs/ Immediately after burning the five discs, I used ISO imaging tools to make a copy of each DVD and store it on a hard drive. That is in case the DVD goes bad, while in storage. I can use Imgburn to make new copies if I want. On a netbook, you have two options. 1) Connect an external USB2 optical DVD burner. Follow the same procedure the laptop owners follow. Have at least the five discs on hand, before you start. 2) Connect an external USB2 hard drive. Use regular backup software, or cloning software, to image the entire hard drive. When I did that, I think it took about 30GB or so on a hard drive. Some brands of netbooks, offer *nothing* in the way of tools for the user. For such a case, you use a hard drive and the cloning style option of the previous (2) to prepare for the day the hard drive or SSD, fails. When a netbook has only USB2 for external interface, that's what you use to prepare your recovery. The netbook should be bootable from USB, because otherwise, you'd be screwed. With an Acer laptop, a dialog may appear on the screen, nagging you to burn your recovery discs. If you missed the dialog, the details are in the manual. If it is a netbook, I would expect similar warnings, but who knows for sure. I've seen complaints about some brands of netbooks providing no tools, but without reading all the manuals for them, I don't know for sure that is the case or not. Paul |
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