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Sony vaio m series how to restore to factory settings

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Hello,
i have a sony vaio m series netbook, running on win 7 starter. would like to reset to factory settings how do i do this without cd recovery disk as it has no disk drive.. thank you

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If you know how to enable "Boot from USB" in the BIOS, you could plug up an external CD/DVD drive and boot from the CD that way.

Alternatively, you could boot from the network or boot from a flash drive. Look up how to install Windows via flash drive on Google; it can be done, but is a lot more difficult than doing the same with Linux.

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