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remove everything on laptop

Started by 3kep! , Sep 21 2011 01:48 PM

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3kep!

Posted 21 September 2011 - 01:48 PM

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I am giving up the vista based HP laptop and want to give it to my stepson. How do I remove all files that are mine and remove vista and add or upgrade to windows 7? Is that possible? I am pretty novice (ish)

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rshaffer61

Posted 21 September 2011 - 02:50 PM

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Press the power button to start the HP. Press and hold the F11 key during bootup to launch the HP Recovery Manager from the recovery partition.

This will return the laptop to factory new settings and any files and programs you had will be deleted.
You will then have to purchase the Win7 upgrade to install it on the laptop.