Resetting Windows 7 to factory settings

Elias Parker

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Apr 27, 2014
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PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ASAP

I have an HP Pavilion g6-1c31nr with Windows 7 that I want to reset to factory settings. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 on this laptop is not an HP OEM and as such it does not have a factory reset option. I bought this laptop used so it does not come with a recovery disc. I do not want to reinstall Windows as it will not preserve my updates or drivers.
 
Solution
HP laptops should enable a factory reset with F11 on bootup - did this not work? Check Disk Management to see if a recovery partition is present at all.