Thread: [Solved] Need code for Office 2007 Home and Student for DELL !?
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Old 02-27-2012, 05:11 PM
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Hi Ted,

The Recovery partition would contain Vista (not Win 7) and, possibly, Office (it all depends on how Dell packaged the PC). So, if you ran the recovery, you'd lose Win 7 and have to reinstall it (for which you'd need a Win 7 product key). Even though Vista is on the Recovery partition, you'd need to input its product key before you could use it. Assuming Office is on the recovery partitition, you'd still need to supply the product key for that, too. The fact the Office product key is not on the case suggests to that Dell supplied Office 2007 on separate media.

Although you can see various CAB files, I suspect these are only for Win 7. The Recovery partition's files are usually inaccessible.
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