Hi g_saunak, I agree with Jimco.Dell has stopped issuing operating system DVD with the system. You will be able to create factory restore image on your system. Please refer to the link below to create recovery disks. The advantage of the recovery disks is it restores the computer to factory settings with all drivers installed. [URL] After installing Windows 8 if you don’t like it you can use the recovery disks to go back to Windows 7 factory state. If you ever wish to reinstall Windows 8 and you have purchased Windows 8 pro upgrade DVD you will have to restore the computer to windows 7 using therecovery disks and then perform the windows 8 upgrade. If you have purchased a Windows 8 pro DVD you can go ahead and manually reinstall the operating system. Please let me know if this helps.
Hi,  I bought the Inspiron 17R SE laptop a couple of months back. So far it has been a lovely experience and pretty much satisfied with its performance. Now when I bought the laptop I didn't have any choice of getting a Windows 7 DVD media with the purchase. Instead I got the offer of upgrading to Windows 8 Pro. Now reading all the reviews and watching the videos of  Win 8 I am really skeptical of installing it. I might give it a try but I want to have the option of dowgrading to factory installed Win 7 Home Premium and hence I have the following question.  1. How do I create a recovery media for the Windows 7 Home Premium that was factory installed in my laptop? 2. After installing Windows 8 if I do not like, will it get back to Windows 7 if I do a factory reset? Though I believe it will clean all my personal files and I would need to keep a backup at first. 3. Let go of the Windows 8 situation. It might so happen that I may need to reinstall the OS after I have  a system crash or may be a virus attack. In that case where would I get the Windows 7 copy that came pre-intsalled with my system?  I am actually more used to with the concept of having a OS DVD media disk with me for all the earlier versions and PCs that I had. In this case I could not get one. Can you please let me know what I need to do here? Is there any way where from I can create a recovery media disk from where I can reset my system to factory installed softwares and most importantly Windows 7.
Question about creating recovery media and WIn 8 Upgrade.