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All the responses that offer help on Windows 7 recovery: The computer has only windows 8 installed. The drive had a Window 7 recovery partition, that I didn't think to erase. If my brother is OK with having Windows 7 again, would running the Windows 7 recovery while Windows 8 is the only OS on...

I did not have time to make recovery media, and my brother didn't think to. I installed Windows 8 through the upgrade assistant, not through an installation DVD. My brother cannot boot up Windows to have tell it to boot to the repair program. I suppose ordering recovery disks is my only option...

I bought my brother a laptop for Christmas (HP Pavilion G6x). He couldn't pick it up from me until a week ago. It came with Windows 7, but he was super excited about Windows 8, so I used one of my upgrades for him. Yesterday after a week of light use, he said he turned it on and he gets a black...