So I've got a new laptop, but no installation media. The hard drive has a hidden restore partition, a windows 7 partition, and a small partition for vendor tools.
My goal is to make a backup of the windows 7 partition, get rid of them all, install Ubuntu then reinstall windows 7 from some sort of image.
Does anyone have some help or advice on how to go about doing this, best practices, or a documented walk through?