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Question posted by geraldreid7 on July 3rd, 2015

Recovery Partition?

I want to wipe my dads old computer but If I do a factory reset will i lose windows 7

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Answer #1: Posted by TommyKervz on July 3rd, 2015 2:31 PM

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