Board 8 > I want to format this laptop... Need to be sure about something.

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This is my older laptop (my current one is a piece of s*** and won't start up), it was originally a Vista before I upgraded to Windows 7. So if I format, will it go back to being Vista?

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If you format it, it will be empty and have no OS on it

if you reinstall windows instead (or afterwards) it'll have whichever operating system you install

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Er... I just wanna get rid of all the files and crap that's on this laptop and start from scratch, but of course I still want Windows 7 on it.

And like... I don't have any disc or anything to reinstall an OS.

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Starting from scratch requires losing windows 7.

There's always the hard way to do it. I.E going in and manually deleting everything.

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Reformatting will put it at factory settings aka Vista. Just install 7 again on top of that the same way you did the first time.

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Dammit, I found the reinstall option and it requires a disc. Ugghhhhh.

This is all my newer laptop's fault. Piece of s***. I'm so mad. This laptop is years older and it still works pretty well. It's only 80 gigs though. And there's just too much to do to make it more acceptable.

I have a headache.

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From: AsurasKordoth | #005
Reformatting will put it at factory settings aka Vista. Just install 7 again on top of that the same way you did the first time.

I don't think there's any way for me to do that now...

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Oh and the mousepad touch-to-click thing annoys the f*** out of me. I used to have no issue finding the setting to turn it off, even on this laptop. Why can't I find it now? I literally have looked everywhere, even did google searches, and I can't freakin' figure out how to disable it.

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You can always "buy" a new copy of windows 7?

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No because the place that I "bought" it from before... went out of business.

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And you didn't back up an iso file or two before you lost the copy you bought?

The last time I bought an OS I made sure to keep an extra copy just in case.

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I don't back things up. I have a ton of files on my piece of s*** laptop right now that I might never get back now. Unless... Best Buy or someone can figure out how to get it started again.

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