I just purchased a Precision M4800 with Win7-64 pre-installed "via downgrade rights" for Win8. The disc provided with the machine is a (Dell) Windows 8.1 64 bit recovery medium, and it does install Win8 (I tried it out on a drive that I was trying to upgrade to). I have no Win7 recovery medium. I have tried to back up the system with DBAR, but it tells be that an upgrade is required, and when I click to install the upgrade, the program just terminates. How are you supposed to back up (and restore) new Dell systems? I can make a Windows backup, but I could not restore the system if necessary, since my only recovery medium installs Win8 and the backup is for / under Win 7.
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