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‎05-01-2020 05:34 AM

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Product: Hp G42 notebook
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

Not able to recover the windows 7 os inatalled in hp notebook

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‎05-01-2020 02:11 PM - edited ‎05-01-2020 02:14 PM

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Hello @Chezhian 

Welcome to the HP Support Community. Thank you for choosing HP !

 

There are many ways to complete the Windows recovery process.  HP Recovery is kind of obsolete nowadays and Windows 7 media is not available anymore. Actually, Windows 7 is also not supported by Microsoft anymore.

 

 

  • If you want to restore Windows 7, the recommended way is to create your own recovery media/image.
    You can download Windows 7 ISO file and write it to either a DVD drive

or to make a bootable USB drive, boot from it and reinstall fresh clean Windows 7. Please, refer to the attached PDF instructions below and use Heidoc + Rufus to create bootable media and reinstall Windows 7.

 

Please, let me know if you face any difficulties and post back details how it goes.

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