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Question posted by neets817 on November 6th, 2013

This Was Already Preinstalled With Win 7 Home Premium.  i Believe I Had

upgraded to 8.1. So now I need anthet key?? Why wont a recovery disk work?

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Answer #1: Posted by TheWiz on November 7th, 2013 2:41 PM
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Unfortunately if you installed another OS like 8.1, you probably deleted the recovery partition which is needed to restore the computer. The recovery discs are just used to initiate the recovery.

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