New laptop, new to Windows 8. Bloatwares installs, no installation disk

JohnKay

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Just got myself a Acer Aspire E5-571-58FP preloaded with Windows 8.1 and tons of bloatware.

It's my first laptop and I'm new to Windows 8.

My question is how do I install a fresh copy of the Windows without all that bloatware? The problem is, it doesn't come with an installation disk.


In addition, if it fails to boot in the future, how do I create a recovery disk/usb?

Further questions:
-How do I make my laptop bootable from a usb, or is it done by default?

-Without an installation disk, does that mean I can't disk partition my hd?
With Windows 7 , I just load the Windows 7 cd, wipe my old OS, partition my drive, and load Windows 7 in it. Without a Windows 8 installation cd, how do I partition my hd and load a fresh copy of Windows 8?


Thank you,
 

johkell

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With no installation disc shipped with it, there may be a good chance that there maybe a recovery partition already on the laptop from which you can reset or create a recovery "USB" from. (16GB capacity required- Windows 8 has to be a USB and not a disc)

As Grandmaster mentioned, if you do factory reset in the future it will still have all the extra garbage that it came installed with
 

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