Help reformatting hard drive

Hi all

I've done it before but can't remember how. I have a partition on my laptop and Windows 7 is installed on the D drive. I've also dumped a load of photos on there as well as the C drive was getting full. (I guess I may need to get rid of them fro the D drive before reformatting right?) Anyway, I want to get the machine back to how it was when I bought it. Everything is backed up. I've looked around online (there are TONS of pages about it) but most of them talking about inserting the CD. Well I don't have one and don't need one as it's installed on the partition right? If you could either tell me how to do it or point me to a link that does, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks

C

You say everything is backed up but did you also backup your photos on D? Because everything will most likely be deleted.

What you are looking at is a factory reset/restore - check your laptop's manual - it is supposed to start with a key press during startup (may also be showing which key when you start the PC).