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March 9th, 2019 00:00

Reinsalling Windows 7 without Recovery, Backup and CD's

Hey guys! I need help! I recently bought a laptop (Dell Precision M4600) through Offerup. I got the laptop but, no Windows 7 Pro installation disk along with the factory installed drivers disk. They installed Windows 10 and I don't like it. I did the Reset thinking it would reinstall Windows 7 and it completely deleted everything drivers and all (oh I didn't do the back up) it reinstalled Windows 10 and now its running slow, it loads up slow, I can't download from Windows Store, if I do download a program it take forever. Watching videos it freezes and it refreshes on its own or it will kick me off of the internet.  I tried the Support Chat but the Warranty is expired! I submitted a Warranty Extension Request a couple days ago, I haven't heard anything yet. 

How can I reinstall Windows 7 Pro 32bit and all the drivers and software the laptop came with? 

nyc10036

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March 9th, 2019 14:00

@qwazy2 wrote:

Hey guys! I need help! I recently bought a laptop (Dell Precision M4600) through Offerup. I got the laptop but, no Windows 7 Pro installation disk along with the factory installed drivers disk. They installed Windows 10 and I don't like it. I did the Reset thinking it would reinstall Windows 7 and it completely deleted everything drivers and all (oh I didn't do the back up) it reinstalled Windows 10 and now its running slow, it loads up slow, I can't download from Windows Store, if I do download a program it take forever. Watching videos it freezes and it refreshes on its own or it will kick me off of the internet.  I tried the Support Chat but the Warranty is expired! I submitted a Warranty Extension Request a couple days ago, I haven't heard anything yet. 

How can I reinstall Windows 7 Pro 32bit and all the drivers and software the laptop came with? 

Like Windows 10 or not, support for Windows 7 is ending January 2020.

 

"reseting" whatever that means won't get you Windows 7 back

 

How do you know that Windows 7 came originally with it?

 

 

AA234

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March 10th, 2019 05:00

If your PC was shipped with Windows 7 pre-installed on it, you can download the Recovery os iso image from here: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/osiso and install Windows 7 on your computer.

speedstep

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March 11th, 2019 09:00

Get a Good Quality USB 2 flash drive either 16 or 32 gigs.

Make a Dell Recovery USB stick.

 
 
I also Recommend Macrium Reflect
 

Philip_Yip

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March 13th, 2019 02:00

Any reason why you are using 32 Bit opposed to 64 Bit Windows? That system should perform with 64 Bit as it is likely to have more than 4 GB of RAM. Windows 7 reaches end of life in January 2020 so you are ill advised to reinstall it. You are unlikely to get support for a long out of warranty system. Your best course of action would be to replace the Hard Drive in the system with a 250 GB or superior Solid State Drive and perform a clean install of the latest build of Windows 10. Windows 10 tends to crank up Disc Usage to 100 % on old mechanical Hard Drives bringing performance to a standstill. Your system's service manual is here: http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_precision_mobile/precision-m4600_service%20manual_en-us.pdf You can get the part from Crucial: https://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Dell/precision-m4600 To Download and Clean Install Windows 10 see my instructions here: https://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/windows-oem-faqs-and-downloads/ Instructions are also available for Windows 7 in the above link.

speedstep

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March 19th, 2019 10:00

The drivers are in a single cab file that you can extract to the documents folder via 7zip

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

 

 1161234923 m4600-win7-a02-r314045.cab
     11403 m4600-win7-a02-r314045.html

 Windows 7 SP1 DELL OEM DVD's are no longer available.

 

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