please help
i recently had my laptop upgraded from vista to 7.
in the process emachines recovery management was wiped off.i am selling my laptop and want to clear eveything off and return it to factory settings without a recovery disc.
thankyou

robert sampson, March 2013

when I turn my g520 on the screen it goes through the Microsoft corporation and nothing happens.

d grew, October 2013

If the recovery management tools have been removed, reseting back to factory settings is no longer possible.

The best you can do is to perform a clean install of any operating system you want, including a reformat.
If you install any distribution of Linux, and use the native file system, the deep format needed will make any data recovery nearly impossible.

BEFORE reinstalling, be sure to delete any personal files, empty the recycle bin, and defragment the drive. This does a great job of destroying leftover files fragments. If you have more than one drive or partitions, be sure to erease any personal files in those locations. Here again, defragmenting is recomended.

I recomend using some third party defragmenter. Many have a whipe free space option. They also do a beter job than the one included with Windows.

Use Ccleaner. In the "Cleaner" section, BOTH tabs. Activate EVERYTHING. Click "Analyse". Click "Run cleaner". Sellect "Yes". Whiping the free space can take a few hours, be patient.

Electro, March 2013