Thread: Reinstalling OS
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Old 2012-02-13, 16:43   Link #13
SeijiSensei
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Originally Posted by blaze0041 View Post
What brand and model is your laptop (and when did you buy it)? The method to access the recovery partition for each laptop is generally different.
That's why I suggested that the manufacturer's support site should be the first destination when help is needed. It's not worth us speculating about what method might be used for a particular make and model, but most support sites and product forums will have the answers.

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Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky View Post
It will also restore all the crapware and presettings that laptops tend to come with though.
If you have that option, I would really go for a clean install.
That depends on the manufacturer. I had to burn the recovery disks when I installed Ubuntu Linux on my daughter's HP laptop. When I was finished reinstalling the Windows OS I was delighted to see it was a pretty clean instance of Win7 without the crap that was there originally from the factory.
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