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Okay so i have tons of stuff in my pc and it's been two years and it's getting slow. luckily i found my windows disk and I wish to factory restore everything from my pc as if i've just bought it.

 

How do I do that? i've seen tutorials on youtube and i somewhat do not trust them, so i thought asking for help here should be fine.

 

Thanks!

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Assuming you own the discs:

  • Backup data you don't want to lose
  • Pop in installation media & reboot
  • Start installation

If your PC came with Windows, you should be able to run the recovery to reset it to factory settings or start a fresh installation.

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Okay so i have tons of stuff in my pc and it's been two years and it's getting slow. luckily i found my windows disk and I wish to factory restore everything from my pc as if i've just bought it.

 

How do I do that? i've seen tutorials on youtube and i somewhat do not trust them, so i thought asking for help here should be fine.

 

Thanks!

 

Put the disk into your disk drive, restart the computer, then hit f1, f2, f10, esc, delete, whatever it says onscreen to get into the bios.  Once in the bios tell the PC to boot from your disc drive.  This will load the windows disk.  Now just follow the steps, and when you get to the part asking about your drives you'll want to tell it to format your main drive.  It might be simpler to disconnect any secondary drives before starting this process.  This will remove everything from your primary hard drive, so make sure to backup any important files.  This process will give you clean operating system.

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What @Albatross said. Also if you have windows 8/8.1 you can hold the "shift" button while rebooting.

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What @Albatross said. Also if you have windows 8/8.1 you can hold the "shift" button while rebooting.

 

Put the disk into your disk drive, restart the computer, then hit f1, f2, f10, esc, delete, whatever it says onscreen to get into the bios.  Once in the bios tell the PC to boot from your disc drive.  This will load the windows disk.  Now just follow the steps, and when you get to the part asking about your drives you'll want to tell it to format your main drive.  It might be simpler to disconnect any secondary drives before starting this process.  This will remove everything from your primary hard drive, so make sure to backup any important files.  This process will give you clean operating system.

 

Assuming you own the discs:

  • Backup data you don't want to lose
  • Pop in installation media & reboot
  • Start installation

If your PC came with Windows, you should be able to run the recovery to reset it to factory settings or start a fresh installation.

But what if i don't have the product key? i only have the disk but i've lost the box 

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Well then, you can try to use MagicalJellyBean or similar software to retrieve your product key.

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Thanks!!!

 

No problem! MagicalJellyBean has never let me down. When I lost my Office box I thought I was toast, but it saved me. ;)

 

 

Have a good time reinstalling!

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