Keeping Windows 7 on laptop I'm selling

fozzybear · 13 Mar 2011 at 18:51

Just wondering what's the best way to do this.

I'm selling a 3 week old laptop that has Windows 7 on it. Obviously, it'll have some of my personal details on the hard drive. I want to wipe the hard drive before selling.

Is there anyway of keeping W7 on there. There was a partition on the hard drive when I bought it with some sort of 'rescue' on it. There was no physical rescue disk.

Also, the Windows 7 key is on the sticker on the underside of the laptop.

Cheers.

PhillyDee · 13 Mar 2011 at 18:59

Implement the recovery partition. Best way is to google the maker and recovery partition.

Could be either an application in windows, or a hot key sequence on powerup. Or both!

tom_e · 13 Mar 2011 at 19:08

You could also download a Win7 iso which I think I've seen hosted on the MS site somewhere and use the key you've got

SiriusB · 13 Mar 2011 at 20:05

Many laptop manufacturers expect their customers to burn their own recovery DVD. A stupid, stupid idea as the average computer user hasn't a bloody clue and never bothers! Rant aside, check what software is on the laptop and take a look at anything that mentions backup and recovery.

fozzybear · 14 Mar 2011 at 08:22

Thanks guys.

It appears that there's some sort of thing you have to do on the boot screen. I'll look into things further.

Casdawer · 14 Mar 2011 at 16:42

HERE are the ISOs if you need them.