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Dear Sir,

I had purchased laptop pavalion g6 1002tx

At that time I had win 7 OS,

later on before two months I installed win 10,

now I want to reinstall Win 7 again because i like that more,

I have Recovery DVD too for win 7,

But problem is this that if I will install win 7 with the help of Recovery Dvd then my all important data of about 500 GB will be lost, because installation with the help of recovery dvd will completly make my lapy in factory condition,

I dont have any external hard disk, all I have is only a slow internet connection, my laptop and recovery Dvd.

Will you please suggest how can I reinstall my original win 7 with the help of recovery dvds without losing even a 1 mb data.

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You cannot. You are going to have to have some means to back up you current installation. 

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You cannot. You are going to have to have some means to back up you current installation. 

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Copy and paste your important files to an external usb drive before you reinstall W7.

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Thx for your rply
Isn't there any method like with the help of any kind of software like virtual box
Or can't i install win 7 with the help of any normal Windows cd the after entering my product key i will make it genuine and then with the help of recovery dvd i can repair and install drivers?
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I think noone can answer this

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Noone can answer the way you want it answered. If you use the recovery disks you lose data. 

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Thankyou very much sir

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