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Resetting Windows 7 / 10 PC?
I've posted here before, about the problems and challenges that I was experiencing with my older PC, after upgrading from Windows 7 to 10 last July. I finally just made the jump to a newer refurbed PC with Windows 8.1.
I have ( as far as I know ) everything transferred over. I reinstalled programs and moved data. Then finally, I cloned the old hard drive twice and put those clones in the safe.
So now, what to do with the older PC and it's HD. I'd LIKE to reinstall Windows 7 on it again, and sell it to someone who can use a Windows 7 PC. But being IT was a refurb when I bought it, around 2009, it didn't come with an OS disk.
So it's been upgraded to Windows 10 now, but that doesn't play well with the old hardware and is not worth messing with.
IS there a way that I can revert the OS to Windows 7 without having a disk, now that it's shown as being upgraded to 10?
I mean, I'd think that Microsoft has some kind of record that it was originally legitimately a Windows 7 PC, and I could reinstall it somehow?