Best way to reinstall windows on laptop?

spinna

spinna

spinna

Associate
Joined
14 May 2003
Posts
972
Location
Liverpool
Ive got a laptop with windows vista on that im going to give to a friend,
whats the best way to wipe all the data off before i give it to them?

should i reinstall windows or just uninstall all of the programs on it before i give them it?
 
yes, just reinstall windows

do you have a lot of sensitive data on there, and would they try to unerase it ?
 
no not really, thats why i was thinking of just uninstalling mose of the programs on there and then delete all of my items on it too,

i take it im going to need a windows vista disk ( which i havnt got ) arent i?
 
spinna said:
Ive got a laptop with windows vista on that im going to give to a friend,
whats the best way to wipe all the data off before i give it to them?

should i reinstall windows or just uninstall all of the programs on it before i give them it?
Click to expand...

They must not be a very good friend if you're going to give them a laptop with Windows VISTA on it. I couldn't do that to my worst enemy :eek:

As said before download the iso, put it on a bootable usb stick and do a clean install, you wouldn't want them using recovery software and finding all your deleted porn :o
 
If you don't want to re-install, just uninstall any software you don't want to leave on there, create a new user account then remove your old account.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom