Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Thanks for the response guys. I thought about a clean install at first so I'll take the advice fro the pros. Nothing better than a fresh computer with just the OS and start from the ground up

when you say

4. Make your Recovery Disks so you have a path back to factory condition

do you mean system repair disk ? are they the same thing as Recovery Disks ?

We recommend making the Recovery Disks in the rare case you need to return the PC under warranty and Tech Support insists it have the Factory Install on it, or if you decide to sell the PC and want an easy way to restore to factory condition to allow the new owner to set it up again.

No one who's done the Clean Reinstall reports they have resorted to Factory Recovery, so you can also (now or later) delete the Recovery partition since you'll have the disks as a backup.

You shouldn't need a System Repair Disk since you'll have the Installer which has the same System Recovery Options on it.

thank-you for your replys

NOTE: This is if your computer did not come with a Windows 7 installation DVD, and has pre-installed recovery options (recovery partition) instead.

This what came on my laptop, a pre-installed recovery partition, I have used it once to restore my laptop to factory setting when it was running very slow a month or so back. At the moment i don't want to do a fresh install because my laptop is running OK but I want to be prepared for disaster and have all my bases covered, also next time I need to factory reset my PC I'd like to do a fresh install instead of using my recovery partition because then it doesn't have all the bloatware on that I'll have to mess about getting rid of. At the moment I have a back-up with system image on an external hard-drive , plus I made a system repair disk and I have also today created a windows installation disk ( as I didn't get one with my PC/ laptop)

Untill lately I used to just run windows back-up and leave it at that because I didn't really understand it all and still don't completely but I have a better understanding of it thanks to this forum it's only after I had to do a factory reset of my laptop that I starting teaching myself all about the whole process.

HP's have the worst load of preinstalled crapware but on the newer models have a Minimal Recovery choice when running HP System Recovery which is nearly a clean reinstall. If you have it you can try that.

Hi all,

I'm looking to do a clean reinstall and came across this forum. Looks perfect but I have a few questions:

1. Will this work with my ASUS pc?

2. I don't believe my HD has a recovery partition left on it. Something went wrong during my last reinstall and I think it's gone, See the attached screen shot. So again will this work for me?

Thanks for your help because I really need it!