Windows 7 desktop recovery

[lmaliszewski]

Hello i have a problem regarding system recovery. I wanted to make new partitions so i got space from my C: partition and made 2 another, but while doing it all my partitions changed to Dynamic from Basic, so i thought about doing recovery to fabric settings, but i can't see Recovery Manager anywhere and F11 while booting PC doesn't work either. I still have HP_Recovery partition.

It's a fresh setup i dont even have any data on it, but it's a downgrade from Win10  to Win 7 pro, installed by HP themselfs and on DVD i have only a copy of Win 10 , so i wanted to ask if there is any chance to do a recovery to fabric settings or at least got a copy of Win 7 install or some DVD wich will let me do it. I need to have Win 7, not Win 10.

Are there even any downsides to using Dynamic partitions? From what i saw on Internet i only found information that i can't install OS on Dynamic partition, are there any other things? Or is this information even true.

[mdklassen]

> I need to have Win 7, not Win 10.

Why?

Do you have hardware (scanner, web-camera, printer) that is not supported by Windows 10?

Do you have applications that have not been updated for Windows 10?

Note that Microsoft's support for Windows 7 ends in January 2020 -- less than 3 years from now.

At that time, you'll have to install Windows 10.

Since you have Windows 10 Professional, it has the capability of using "compatibility mode" to run programs designed for earlier versions of Windows. Will that work for you?

[lmaliszewski]

Our whole firm  is running on Windowses 7 and i don't want to configure differently only 1 PC. Beside we have scripts and all setting for Win7 etc

[mdklassen]

> Our whole firm  is running on Windows 7 and i don't want to configure differently only 1 PC.

> Beside we have scripts and all setting for Win7 etc.

Given the "sunset" -- end of support -- of Windows 7 in January 2020, I think that it's time for your firm to create a "Business Continuation Plan" for a migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and to include a "mixed" environment (some Windows 7, some Windows 10) in your plan.

Or, just buy another identical computer, with Windows 7, from the same vendor, and to then use the one Windows 10 computer as a "development" machine, as part of your Business Continuation Plan, to prepare for a firm-wide roll-out of Windows 10.