Accidentally deleted windows 7 on hard disc *no oparating system* ...system cant find bootmgr when try to format windows
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Darkbreeze
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I don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "when you try to "format" windows"? Do you mean when you try to INSTALL windows? Formatting would mean you were trying to erase everything on the partition.
How could you "accidentally" erase windows 7? Were you using a partition manager of some kind and accidentally deleted the partition windows was on? It would be impossible to "format" the windows partition, while IN windows, so you would have had to be trying to install a second OS or managing the partitions somehow.
If you deleted the Windows 7 partition or something else happened, you really only have two choices. If you have a recovery partition that came installed, as they usually do with prebuilt systems, you can run a system recovery from the advanced boot menu and reinstall windows to the factory image. If you have windows 7 installation media, you can do a clean install using that. Whatever condition the boot or OS partition is in makes no difference if you choose one of those options.
If you've deleted the factory restore partition and don't have any Windows disks to install from, then you're SOL and will need to buy a copy of windows unless you know the product key and find installation media somewhere. Digital river and Microsoft no longer provide Windows 7 ISO versions for OEM systems, so that's not an option.
How could you "accidentally" erase windows 7? Were you using a partition manager of some kind and accidentally deleted the partition windows was on? It would be impossible to "format" the windows partition, while IN windows, so you would have had to be trying to install a second OS or managing the partitions somehow.
If you deleted the Windows 7 partition or something else happened, you really only have two choices. If you have a recovery partition that came installed, as they usually do with prebuilt systems, you can run a system recovery from the advanced boot menu and reinstall windows to the factory image. If you have windows 7 installation media, you can do a clean install using that. Whatever condition the boot or OS partition is in makes no difference if you choose one of those options.
If you've deleted the factory restore partition and don't have any Windows disks to install from, then you're SOL and will need to buy a copy of windows unless you know the product key and find installation media somewhere. Digital river and Microsoft no longer provide Windows 7 ISO versions for OEM systems, so that's not an option.
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