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x17 R1, factory reset/disk wipe of a OEM Windows?
Hello everybody!
I'd like to sell my (already out of warranty) Alienware X17 R1.
It came with an OEM Windows 10 preinstalled.
Is there an easy way to do a "Factory Reset" of this laptop? I mean, erase the current data from the drive and make the laptop pull the fresh OS image from its recovery partition so that when it turns on you're greeted with the config menu as if it was new.
I'm afraid that if I manually start uninstalling stuff from it I'll leave out some of my personal data and pass it to the buyer.
Thanks!
ejn63
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July 26th, 2024 17:10
Non-AI answer:
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000176966/reset-or-reinstall-windows-10-on-your-dell-computer
You may want to follow with a disc wipe utility to render all the data on the drive unrecoverable -- simply restoring the OS won't do this. There are plenty of options for that, some free.
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July 26th, 2024 19:46
@ejn63 Thank you very much! Oddly enough I didn't look at the support documentation first before asking here :)
Yes, I will use a file "shredder" on the most sensitive folders before perfroming the reset.