reinstalling Vista on a preinstalled desktop

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TechnologyHalfVirgin

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#69516 9-Oct-2010 20:17

Hi
I will try to explain what I want to do, sorry if I get it wrong.
I have a new desktop and I am wanting to sell my old one. Old one has Vista installed on it but it came pre installed so no installation disk but I did do the recovery disk thing as it told me too. PROBLEM: I do not know how to use it, it is not like XP I want to get rid of ALL my data on there before I sell and just have what I had when I bought it. Does this make sense? Can anyone give me step by step on how to do this?

Thank you for your time and patience.

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#389976 9-Oct-2010 20:35

If you made the recovery disks just put the 1st disc in the drive and reboot the pc.
It should boot off the disk and then you want to do a factory reset which will return the pc back to how it was the day you got it. Make sure you have all your data backed up from it first!

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TechnologyHalfVirgin

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Master Geek

#389977 9-Oct-2010 20:37

OMG how stupid am I?? DUH thank you for that. I have put all I want over to new PC. Thanks a mill :)