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So I have some pressing work I need to do and my laptop is giving me crap. It's very old but I'm hoping I can at least make it last the month or two I need till I can afford my PC, sooooo,

How can I reformat my computer but still keep windows ideally in the next Half hour as I have downloaded unwittingly a lot of crap/bloat/add/everything ware!

Please help as I really need to do this quick, but I also need to keep windows and ideally Microsoft office!

Cheers!

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what version of windows?

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what version of windows?

Windows 7 - 64 bit

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Windows 7 - 64 bit

what kind of laptop?

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what kind of laptop?

Not to sure

It's a Lenovo think pad (one of the older ones) but not sure specifics as it's me dad's old one

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If it have factory reset option, you are golden. Check under what key it is when the laptop is booting.

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If you downloaded a lot of bloatware etc. than download Malwarebytes and do a system scan (free professional anti-malware program)

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You can find an iso of a windows disk somewhere on the internet and then use the key that should be on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop. It will take a while though and drivers are a pain on laptops.

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Boooom! Found it: Lenovo t61

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Boooom! Found it: Lenovo t61

 

During system startup press the Thinkvantage button or the F11 button, go into Rescue and Recovery, restore to factory condition.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/T61-Want-to-start-again-factory-refresh/td-p/13821

 

Factory reset will reinstall windows with drivers, basically how you got it on the first day. If it of course have a original HDD.

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You can find an iso of a windows disk somewhere on the internet and then use the key that should be on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop. It will take a while though and drivers are a pain on laptops.

  

If you downloaded a lot of bloatware etc. than download Malwarebytes and do a system scan (free professional anti-malware program)

  

If it have factory reset option, you are golden. Check under what key it is when the laptop is booting.

  

Take a look in the BIOS, I think it says the model number there.

Sliiiiiight problem: it's the Lenova T61 which already makes things harder and it appears my recovery partition is missing as I get this: see picture.

Any ideas what to do? I have my windows and office keys but just not disks and I need to do this tonight! Please help!!

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Do you have a recovery disk? If so pop it into the disk reader and see what happens

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Then you are sol and have to find a clean win iso somewhere. :(

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Do you have a recovery disk? If so pop it into the disk reader and see what happens

Then you are sol and have to find a clean win iso somewhere. :(

  

Do you have a recovery disk? If so pop it into the disk reader and see what happens

Desperate times call for desperate measures:

I have No recovery disks but is there a way to torrent/download the same stuff of the interwebs somewhere? I have another laptop if I need to download it on their or something

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Desperate times call for desperate measures:

I have No recovery disks but is there a way to torrent/download the same stuff of the interwebs somewhere? I have another laptop if I need to download it on their or something

 

Try making a recovery disk from your second laptop (if it has that feature and pop it into the broken laptop) - I've used recovery disks from different computers/laptops to recover different computers/laptops

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Try making a recovery disk from your second laptop (if it has that feature and pop it into the broken laptop) - I've used recovery disks from different computers/laptops to recover different computers/laptops

How would I know if my laptop had this feature and/or access this feature?

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How would I know if my laptop had this feature and/or access this feature?

 

Well on my HP computer/laptop if you go into computer there is a hard drive labeled Factory_image and a recovery folder. Or go into Control Panel -> System and Security -> Backup and Restore [sorry it's late at where I am and I have to go - good luck!]

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