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10-11-2017 04:46 PM
Greetings, I made recovery disks early on, total of 3 CD disks, for my 2009 Windows 7 HP G71 64-bit Notebook. I would like to take it back to factory reset to clean it up. I have moved all my files to an external drive. Do I need these recovery disks? or can the laptop recovery itself fully when I do a factory reset from the prompts? What is the best way to factory reset for best outcome. Thank you for all your help here! 🙂
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10-11-2017 06:22 PM
You can do a Factory reset either from tapping F11 key at power on to boot into recovery partition or you can boot from the discs. It is faster to run it from the recovery partition. The discs are mainly of value if the hard drive fails and has to be replaced-in such an event F11 would no longer work.
Select your OS and follow the guide here to run recovery from F11:
http://hp.dezide.com/ts/start.jsp?guide=HPSystemRecovery.net&as=true&SFS=sdoc§ion=ccweb
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10-11-2017 06:22 PM
You can do a Factory reset either from tapping F11 key at power on to boot into recovery partition or you can boot from the discs. It is faster to run it from the recovery partition. The discs are mainly of value if the hard drive fails and has to be replaced-in such an event F11 would no longer work.
Select your OS and follow the guide here to run recovery from F11:
http://hp.dezide.com/ts/start.jsp?guide=HPSystemRecovery.net&as=true&SFS=sdoc§ion=ccweb
**Click Accept as Solution on a Reply that solves your issue**
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