So my laptop came with Windows 8 preinstalled and I'm going to downgrade to Windows 7, but if ever I want to go back to Win 8 in a future, I'll need an OEM installation media as my license is OEM, discs were not supplied, however there's a recovery partition on my drive.
My question is: are instalation media, recovery media, recovery partition and system image the same things as do they all work for installing and recovering windows?
If yes does that mean that if I leave win8's recovery partition untouched, I'll be able to install win 8 from it later? Or I'll need to have done something else (created DVDs, system image or something)? Sorry but that's not very clear for me, if someone could explain a little the differences or give me a link to this I'll be very glad.
And another question, in the drive there are the following partitions:
OEM partition, EFI system partition, 1.44 GB recovery partition, 17.20 GB recovery partition, C: (OS partition), and D: (data).
In order to install Windows 7, only C: will have to be formatted? or besides D:, what will have to be formatted and what will not?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can clarify that for me
My question is: are instalation media, recovery media, recovery partition and system image the same things as do they all work for installing and recovering windows?
If yes does that mean that if I leave win8's recovery partition untouched, I'll be able to install win 8 from it later? Or I'll need to have done something else (created DVDs, system image or something)? Sorry but that's not very clear for me, if someone could explain a little the differences or give me a link to this I'll be very glad.
And another question, in the drive there are the following partitions:
OEM partition, EFI system partition, 1.44 GB recovery partition, 17.20 GB recovery partition, C: (OS partition), and D: (data).
In order to install Windows 7, only C: will have to be formatted? or besides D:, what will have to be formatted and what will not?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can clarify that for me
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro
- Computer type
- Laptop