How to install windows 7 from disk without losing the necessary information.

So, your operating system does not work, and now you need to reinstall it. But you do not know how to do it right. You do not have any acquaintances who could help in this matter. And you probably think how to install Windows 7 from the disk. But there is nothing wrong with that. Some general knowledge of working with a computer is required. In the following, you will learn how to install Windows 7 from the disk correctly, without losing the necessary information.

Let's get started. You need a disk with an operating system. You can take it from friends or buy in a store. But if you do not want to spend money, you can just download the image and burn it to disk.

To get started, go online and download the image of some version of Windows 7. Preferably the full version, and not cut. The easiest way to do this is with the help of torrents. For example, you can download from the famous Russian torrent RuTracker. In addition, there may be a description of how to install Windows 7 from the disk for this version of the OS.

After you have downloaded this disk image , write it to the real disk. You can do this using various programs, for example, Nero. Now you have a disk and you can start.

How to install Windows 7 from disk to computer.

First, if you have important information on your computer, copy it to an optical disc or another local disk. For example, to drive D, to the Temp folder. What files can be important and about which you could forget:

• my Documents;

• files from the desktop;

• Download folder on drive C;

• Save files for various games;

• download files for the torrent. They are located in the folder "C: \ Users \ [Username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ uTorrent \"

• the desired configuration files for other programs that are located in the folder "C: \ Users \ [Username] \ AppData \ Roaming \"

• Important files from the folder "C: \ Users \ [Username] \ AppData \ Local \"

After that, insert the disk into the drive and start the installation. You can immediately through your operating system, or restart the computer and boot from the disk.

How to boot from disk.

You can go to the BIOS and configure it there so that the computer is first loaded from the optical disk, and then from the hard drive. To do this, press Del or Delete to start the computer. On different motherboards in different ways. There, find the menu with First Device, the second and third device. First, specify the drive.

Either do otherwise without changing the settings. As soon as the information on the motherboard appears on the screen, you need to press F8 or F12 (depending on the model of the motherboard), and there will be a list of devices from which you can boot. Select the drive.

Continue to disassemble the question "how to install Windows 7 from disk".

Then the installation process begins. Everything is simple there. Agree with the license. Then (if you have a full distribution of the operating system), you will be asked to choose the language of the future system. Also, the choice of bit system will be provided. Better choose x86 than x64. Since it is more common that such a Windows and many programs are under such OS and work. For 64-bit you will need other drivers, and some programs will not work.

But the important thing is that. If you have a large amount of RAM, then choose x64, because in x86 the system sees only 3GB of RAM.

Then you will be asked to select the partition on which the new Windows will be installed. Choose the section where your old version was. Almost always it's a C drive. It will also be possible to format this local disk, or leave it unchanged. It is better to format. But before it was necessary to copy all the necessary files (this was written above).

Then we press the installation and wait. Even during the installation you will be offered to adjust the time and time zone, as well as the keyboard layout.

How to restore Windows 7 from disk.

Sometimes it happens that there is no possibility to copy the necessary files, and you recorded the disk or took it from your friends, since your OS is not loaded. In this case, when installing, there is an OS recovery point. With this installation option, the files in the Windows folder and some other system files are replaced without losing data for you.