I bought the AO725 with Win8 new 2 yrs ago. I changed it to Win7. Would like to restore Win8

den458

I knew I might want to restore Win8 at some future point. I think I burned a Win8 back-up DVD using whatever tools were built-in to Win8 at that time. The future is now, I'd like to restore to the original Win8. I imagine the simplest way to restore would be if there was a recovery partition, & if I was smart enough to not disturb it, then access it. From Win7, Computer - disk management, I can see something called system reserved, 100mb size, 74 mb free, simple, basic, NTFS. Am I lucky enough that this is a recovery partition that I can access to restore Win8 ? I cannot remember if I completely wiped the HDD of everything for maximum future space before the Win7 install. I'd like to focus on the recovery partition if it remains intact & use it. If I deleted it, or it never existed, I'll explore help with the back-up I think I burned. Do I have a Win8 recovery partition intact & how do I accessit? Thanks in advance for guidance, Den

IronFly

normally the Acer recovery partition is around 16 to 20GB partition, if this is missing.....you have lost the windows 8 Acer recovery partition.

 

by the way, if you have your windows 8 backup DVD, you can simply delete all partitions on HDD and then boot from the DVD.