How to Factory (Hard) Reset a Laptop or Reinstall Windows 10, 8 or 7 💻👨‍💻📀
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2018-05-30

👍 Watch how to reset a laptop. Restoring a laptop to factory settings is a completely automatic reinstallation of Windows with all applications and drivers that have been pre-installed by the manufacturer. When the resetting process is over, you will have the laptop in the same condition it had when you bought it. 

Restoring a Laptop’s Factory Settings: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/restoring-a-laptops-factory-settings.htm

Content:
0:00 - Intro;
2:14 - Laptop recovery environment
3:49 - Dell device
5:20 - What to do if Windows won't boot?

When resetting, Windows is restored from a backup which is kept in a special hidden recovery partition. You can see it when you enter the Disk Management menu. It’s usually called Recovery partition and takes up from 5 to 20 Gb of space. However, the size can be very different, depending on the size of the pre-installed apps. Without this partition, you can’t factory reset a laptop.

Though, this partition can be absent as a result of accidentally deleting it during manual reinstallation of Windows, or if you bought a laptop without a pre-installed operating system.
Please note: When the operating system is reset, all data from disk C will be erased!

In one of the previous videos we showed you how to reset an Android device to make it operable again. You will find the link in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJXDoJsDvps 

In the same manner, you can bring a Windows laptop back to life. However, the laptop’s hard disk should have a special recovery partition, created by the manufacturer. 

Here we go.

There is a special video about installing Windows from a USB drive or DVD. Find the link in the description: https://www.youtube.com/user/hetmansoftwareworld/search?view_as=subscriber&query=install+windows 

In one of the next videos, I’ll show you how to create a recovery partition to factory reset your system, and how to use it for system recovery. Make sure you don’t miss it.

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