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I have a blank hard drive. I also have a Windows 7 system image backed up on an external hard drive. I don't have a system repair disk (SRD) and also don't have Windows 7 disk. I only have the recovery disks that came with my laptop. There is no option in the recovery disk to restore from a system image. So, I am forced to use the old stuff in the recovery disk.

I have few questions:

  1. Can I restore my system from an image on a USB based HDD, without any SRD?
  2. Can I create an SRD in a windows 8 system for a windows 7 system? I know this might sound strange, but what if an SRD is just a collection of backup utilities?
  3. If no microsoft based answer is there, then is there any commercial software which can do this instead?

I don't even have access to an original Windows 7 disk right now. So, that option is ruled out too.

Kamil Maciorowski
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you can download a legal, full windows 7 disc of whatever type you please from here

Burn to Disc and boot from there.

Note: These are legal .iso images. You should only access the images that you legitimately own. Doing otherwise for longer than the trail period is illegal.

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you can create a system repair disk, from control panel, using your computer or any other computer running windows 7.

I created mine, using the laptop of my brother in order to fix my pc. here's how, this does not answer your question, "Restore windows 7 without “system repair disk” but hey if you have a PC, you can do it, that's what I'm saying

Lynob
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You can also use a linux distro called "Clonezilla" as long as the image you created is in a format that it can recognize then you shouldn't have too much problems doing so. It is pretty easy to use and figure out. if you find yourself going "huh???"er reading the options reread them slower and it will make sense (it did for me)

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