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‎01-29-2018 07:42 AM

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Product: Pavilion dv7-4177nr
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

 Hard drive crashed 1 year ago. Now need it. Put in 1T hard drive have recovery disk need to help on recovering operating system. Was win7 installed but had upgraded to win10 right  before crash. 

Need help. Thanks.

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‎01-29-2018 08:05 AM

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@Edixon1007 wrote:

I have a blank hard drive. Only dos. How can I do that?

On another PC, download and install Microsoft's Media Creation Tool. 

 

It will let you create a USB drive to install Windows 10. 

 

 

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‎01-29-2018 07:45 AM

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@Edixon1007 wrote:

 Hard drive crashed 1 year ago. Now need it. Put in 1T hard drive have recovery disk need to help on recovering operating system. Was win7 installed but had upgraded to win10 right  before crash. 

Need help. Thanks.

Install Windows 10 on the new hard drive.

It will automatically activate.

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‎01-29-2018 07:57 AM

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I have a blank hard drive. Only dos. How can I do that?

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‎01-29-2018 08:03 AM

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Will recovery disk bring back win7?

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‎01-29-2018 08:05 AM

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@Edixon1007 wrote:

I have a blank hard drive. Only dos. How can I do that?

On another PC, download and install Microsoft's Media Creation Tool. 

 

It will let you create a USB drive to install Windows 10. 

 

 

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‎01-29-2018 08:08 AM

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Thanks let me try. 

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