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December 15th, 2017 04:00
hard drive failure - how do i reinstall windows
hello - Im convincedmy hard drive has failed - - No boot disc. Its happenned a few times and have always been able to get it to a chkdsk and recover...Cant even get that far this time
So, im potentially left with replacing the hard drive. My question is I have a Dell Desktop 5100 which came with Windows 7 preinstalled - but later upgraded to Windows 10.
If I put a new hard drive in - how do i recover the operating sytsem side of things - because in the model I have I was never provided any Windows recovery media....
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Philip_Yip
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December 15th, 2017 05:00
N.B. If this is the ancient Dimension 5100 (2005 model)... then you will be restricted to 32 Bit Windows and even then it won't run Windows 10 very well...
You can Download a Windows 10 .iso from Microsoft and directly clean install Windows 10 on your Dell system. You will not need to input your Product Key as your system is already a Windows 10 Device however you can input the product key from the Windows 7 Retail License.
ejn63
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December 15th, 2017 05:00
You can get the Windows 10 recovery media from Microsoft (the system will already have a digital entitlement since Windows 10 was already activated on it).
www.microsoft.com/.../windows10