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When I bought my pc it came with windows 7 64bit pre instanalled, with no discs or any thing, I now want to sell my pc, how can I reset it to factory settings while still keeping windows ?
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it will only let me restore it to a certain point which is three weeks ago ? and i need to restore from when i first bought it
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i can return it to factory condition but will that remove windows ?
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No it will just wrap itself up in a box and wait outside, it may require somebody to ring the bell/knock on the door. Just like the day it arrived.
You brought it home from a shop didn't you...
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yes i got it from a shop, so will factory reset keep windows 7 even though i dont have the disc /?
No.
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Correct.
It (probably) won't securely erase any of your data though. If you stored anything important on there that you need to keep private then it's probably worth running something to scrub the free disk space before restoring it to the out of the box state.
Hidden partition - It will have recovery software pre installed..
Use combination of F keys/delete keys to boot into it and restore from there.
A search on the net will probably tell you how to do this in regards to your PC vendor.
This is why you have no disc, it's already on the PC..
Use combination of F keys/delete keys to boot into it and restore from there.
A search on the net will probably tell you how to do this in regards to your PC vendor.
This is why you have no disc, it's already on the PC..
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Lmao. Well actually.... It does remove windows 7 with a format but it will put it back on as an OOTBE. (Out of the box experience).
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