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I bought my wife a new VAIO Sony laptop. It came with Win8 installed. She has been using a Toshiba laptop with Win7.
She wants no part of Win8. (She is 84 years old) & spends a lot of time on her laptop.
I want to put Win7 on the Sony VAIO. I don't want to save anything on it.
I want to make a Clean install by reformatting the HD.
However, I know you can not completely reformat the HD because of the "System Reserved" partition.
Does anyone have information on how to do a factory reformat?
Tully
She wants no part of Win8. (She is 84 years old) & spends a lot of time on her laptop.
I want to put Win7 on the Sony VAIO. I don't want to save anything on it.
I want to make a Clean install by reformatting the HD.
However, I know you can not completely reformat the HD because of the "System Reserved" partition.
Does anyone have information on how to do a factory reformat?
Tully
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 10 Beta
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home Assembled
- CPU
- Intel I5
- Motherboard
- ASUS P8Z&&-V LX
- Memory
- 8 GB DDR2 SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel on board
- Sound Card
- INTEL ON MB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung TD390 HDMI
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- Crucial MX100 512GB SSD
2TB Storage
External Seagate "Dashboard" File Backup Drive USB3
WD "My Cloud" 4TB
Samsung Super Write Master 24 DVD Writer
- PSU
- Cosair
- Case
- Corsair
- Cooling
- AIR
- Keyboard
- Advent USB Keyboard
- Mouse
- Advent USB
- Internet Speed
- 200 MB dwn 30MB up
- Browser
- IE 11 Win 10
- Antivirus
- MS Essentials
- Other Info
- USB2 & USB3