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    Dell Inspiron 1525 Factory Restore

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by singhi4, Apr 3, 2010.

  1. singhi4

    singhi4 Newbie

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    Hi,
    Im using a dell inspiron 1525 running vista home premium 32bit. i want to upgrade it to windows 7 professional and i know that requires a custom clean install. my question here is that if i do a custom install will my factory restore image of vista be deleted or will it remain after i have done a clean install of windows 7.
    eg. if i want to go back to vista will i be able to just do a factory restore or not
     
    singhi4, Apr 3, 2010
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  2. singhi4

    singhi4 Newbie

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    has anyone got any answer plz
     
    singhi4, Apr 4, 2010
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    If you don't delete the recovery partition during your custom install, it'll stay there...
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 6, 2010
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  4. Mr.Singh

    Mr.Singh Notebook Guru

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    yeah if u dont delete the recovery partition the factory image will be there in the system even after upgrading to win 7 :D
     
    Mr.Singh, Apr 13, 2010
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  5. kapilk007

    kapilk007 Notebook Consultant

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    i don't think u need a clean install.u can upgrade from vista to 7 unless u plan to deploy a 64 bit version of 7(coz u have a 32bit vista).
    the upgrade will take considerably more time than a clean install though.
    but if u really want a clean install then the answer is "Its all upto u" if u delete the recovery partition its all gone and if u don't delete u will have the option of factory restore with u.
     
    kapilk007, Apr 13, 2010
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