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‎05-12-2019 12:10 AM

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello,

I want to ask: I have a HP Elite 7000 Microtower PC (VN882#AKR), with preinstalled "Win 7 downgraded to XP Pro" and I have got a Win 7 Pro OA HP P. Key. I wanted to make recovery disk before reformatting, but i haven t found any recovery manager, or anything else. I tried to just copy recovery partition to the disk, but it doesn t work. Plz does anybody know, how I can make a recovery disk without recovery manager (or rec. USB)? Thanx.

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‎05-12-2019 06:25 AM

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Assuming the Recovery Partition has Windows 7 in it and that is still good, I searched for the Recovery Manager software and found it in a couple places.  I know nothing about either of these siurces

https://hp-recovery-manager.en.lo4d.com/windows

https://www.filecroco.com/download-hp-recovery-manager/

 

Assuming that will allow the making of the Recovery Disk set or USB.  Posted back if that does not solve the problem.

 

BTW:  if you have the Windows 7 Pro key and the PC was originally Windows 7 Pro, you should be able to also use Windows 7 Pro install media and use the drivers from the driver support page.  It will be more work but an alternative.


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‎05-14-2019 07:31 AM

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When I booted into recovery partition, it showed me a win7 logo, but when i run this process, it install a windows XP. Btw I installed win 7 from my instalation disk, and downloaded is software, but it didnt work. Has anybody any other idea?

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