If i wanted to reset / format my Ideapad 510 is the backup built into the laptop's D: drive?

JamesUK · 1 Aug 2019 at 15:31

Hi, I may be looking for a new laptop soon, the ideapad 510 i have seems a little slow these days, I think a laptop with an SSD drive might be nice.

I wondered though when the time does come and the fact I got no setup discs with windows 10 with my laptop that I can remember, is the windows setup build into the laptop? I have always have a a 2nd drive on my laptop called D: Lenovo and contains a drivers folder, it says it has around 22gb free space on it, not sure why they would need to let that much free space go to waste and not just allocate what the drivers take up which is around 2gb.

If i did want to completely format and reset the laptop so it’s good to be sold and i can be happy nothing of mine is left on it, how would I go about that with?

If I go into F8 during boot will there be options within there for a complete reset?

Thanks

James

koolpc · 1 Aug 2019 at 15:45

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/ht071861

wiiija · 1 Aug 2019 at 16:40

I'd just grab the iso from microsoft and use a flash drive to wipe and install, I always do it with new laptops to remove all the awful vendor programs.

JamesUK · 1 Aug 2019 at 16:50

Am i right in thinking that the bios now contains the licence key so should auto fill it in during setup?
My laptop was shipped with windows 7 though if that is the case then i got a free upgrade to windows 10.

JamesUK · 1 Aug 2019 at 17:14

Or is there a way of me getting my key so i can make a note of it, its not anywhere on the laptop as such or when i upgraded to windows 10 would it have replaced the build in licence? i remember reading something about a build in licence?

wiiija · 1 Aug 2019 at 17:37

There is a way of grabbing the key but the program has slipped my mind, someone with more knowledge will be along to answer soon.

scrivz69 · 1 Aug 2019 at 17:40

Try this mate. https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

JamesUK · 1 Aug 2019 at 19:56

Thanks Scivz69 that got me the key.

This is what my disk management window looks like, i'm guessing one of them would probably be a image of the drive to do a reset, hard to know without knowing whats in them.

https://ibb.co/wrjjkff