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Vampiric Puppet   10-19-2008 at 05:04:06 PM

Hi, I'm selling my laptop to buy and pay for a new computer but I want to make sure the only thing left on the HD is the OS, like brand new, and that all information ive put on there is gone as though I never owned it. How do I do this?

Is it possible to get it to start up as though it was new?

Thanks

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Grumpy9117   10-19-2008 at 05:56:12 PM
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What brand of laptop? Did you get a set of Recovery disks with it?

Grumpy

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Vampiric Puppet   10-19-2008 at 06:31:12 PM
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Its a Dell XPS M1530, Vista 32 bit. Yeah I did, would those help?

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br3nd064   10-19-2008 at 06:43:54 PM
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Yes, using the recovery disks will set it back to factory-condition.

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Vampiric Puppet   10-19-2008 at 07:12:00 PM
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Ah Cool thanks, I didn't have a disk but the manual told me what to do and I used "Dell Factory Image Restore" to restore to Factory settings. Thanks a lot mate

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