Solved Restore my windows 7 to its factory reset

[sagie88]

hi.

my name is sagie and i have my reinstallation disk of windows 7 but he is scratched(not working)
i have all other details but this disk id done for .

now my computer was "fixed" once so i dont have the recovery in my hard drive.

i want to creat a new reinstall disk or something so ican finally format my computer again.

btw i have dell inspiron n5010 win 7 X64

thanks for help

 

[Anshad Edavana]

Hi

Please take a look at the bottom of your laptop and check whether there is a COA sticker like the below one.

If yes, you can use the key printed on that sticker to perform a clean installation. Please refer the detailed guide written by "gregrocker" for more info.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

The guide covers everything you need to know and includes download links for legal versions of Windows 7. Make sure to download the exact edition of Windows 7 image which will be printed on the sticker ( ie Pro means Professional ). After performing the clean install, use phone based activation as online activation is not supported for OEM installations.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18715-activate-windows-7-phone.html

 

[sagie88]

thank u for u help

basicly this thing i know but i want to know if there is a way to recreate my disk again .
ohh yeah and in his guide i didnt understand section 5.

and on the way i have another problem i have only 1 drive (c:\)
now i want to create another drive (d:\)

but for some reason it dosent let me use all the free space(177gb) only part of it (20gb)

i tryed defrag with windows and with extarnel software (defraggler).

after hours of waiting still cant use all my free scpace.

tnx ahead sagie .

 

[theog]

How to use Dell Recovery Partition,make Recovery Disks & how to order Microsoft official Dell OEM manufacturer's Recovery Disks.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xlob/mmd/en/starting_DFIR.htm
RouteTo
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dellcare/en/backupcd_form?DoNotRedirect=y

 

[sagie88]

How to use Dell Recovery Partition,make Recovery Disks & how to order Microsoft official Dell OEM manufacturer's Recovery Disks.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xlob/mmd/en/starting_DFIR.htm
RouteTo
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dellcare/en/backupcd_form?DoNotRedirect=y

this wont help me cause im from israel so the discs only go for us and canada.
but tnx anyway.

 

[gregrocker]

What exactly do you not understand about the Clean Reinstall tutorial? Step 5 lets you create an audit of hardware, software including Product Keys. You can skip if you want.

It explains how to do the partitioning in Step 8. But first be sure to read the Special Note for Dell Owners at the end to test bootable Diagnostics. These are valuable to keep, so if they boot and run be sure to save the small OEM utility partition, but you can delete all others since Recovery will not run after a Clean Reinstall plus you want to create a new install and data partition to start freshest.

So after using Drive Ootions to delete all except OEM Utility partition, click New to create and format your OS partition of around 100gb, then your data partition for the rest.