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Kyuubixchidori
By Kyuubixchidori
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hey guys, so about to sell this laptop. It has windows 8.1 on it. is there a way for me to get it to "factory" without touching the windows?

 

it orignally was win 7 laptop, so I cant just "factory reset" it, as i want to keep win 8.1 on it. any help?

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hey guys, so about to sell this laptop. It has windows 8.1 on it. is there a way for me to get it to "factory" without touching the windows?

 

it orignally was win 7 laptop, so I cant just "factory reset" it, as i want to keep win 8.1 on it. any help?

this should help or you could go into the recovery menu and reset it from there

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

[NEW System] (CPU) i7-4790k (mobo) ASUS maximins V (GPU) AMD R9 380x (CPU cooling) Corsair h100 (PSU) EVGA 800w (Monitor's) LG 32" ultrawide @ 75hz and a Asus 27" IPS logitech g602 mouse

[OLD System] (CPU) amd athlon x4 760k@ 4.4ghz/ (mobo) MSI FM2-A55M-E33/ (GPU) Gigabyte windforce 7870 / (CPU cooling) Corsair h100/ (PSU) Corsair CX 430w/ (monitor) dell 1980x1080@60hz 21"/ a logitech keyboard and mouse. Phone: Samsung S5  Galaxy s10e .

OLD Laptop: Dell Latitude E6410 with i5 520m and Nvidia NVS 310

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Issue is its saying there's missing stuff to just reset it. And there's no recovery disk as it was upgraded to 8.1

I'm just adding a new user and removing the old ones and uninstalling prograns

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