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Click the Restart button to reboot your computer and to start the factory reset process.

Select to either create a Back up now, or to Skip it and continue the factory reset without backing up any of your current files.

Note: If your computer doesn’t have a recovery partition, then the factory reset option is not available and you’ll see the “ Reinstall Windows (requires Windows installation disc)” option instead. Doing a Surface factory reset, also referred to as a hard reset, removes all user data and essentially reverts the device to the state it was in when you first received it. Click on “Return Your Computer to Factory Condition”. Now you’ll be presented with two options: “ Restore files from a system image backup” and “ Return Your Computer to Factory Condition“.

Next, choose Advanced recovery methods.

In the Backup and Restore window, click on the Recover system settings or your computer link.

Click Start, then choose Control Panel.

How to Reset Windows 7 to Factory Settings without Install Disc? If your hard drive has such a recovery partition, you can then reset your Windows 7 system to factory settings without needing any discs or external drives.

Instead, they create a hidden recovery partition for users to perform a factory reset.

Many computer manufacturers are pre-installing Windows without giving you the actual installation media to go with it. Ive hard reset the Icon many times during before upgrade and Ive even used the recovery tool to restore Windows 8.1 with all of the updates and the Icon is still a pain after upgrading.

Now every computer is digitally registered through the Internet so there is no need to keep the product keys around.How do I reset or restore a Windows 7 PC to factory settings? As we all know, Windows 7 doesn’t have the built-in refresh and reset options like Windows 8/8.1 and you have no other way to restore your computer to factory settings unless you have a manufacturer-provided install media or recovery disc. In previous Windows versions, this wasn’t possible without using an external disk or USB to reset the password, and if you needed to reinstall the operating system you needed to have the product key to activate it. Its kind of nice that Microsoft have added the option of resetting a computer to default settings without knowing the current account password. Then choose “ Remove Everything” on the following screen:ĭon’t try doing “Keep my files” option, it will ask you for the account password, which you obviously don’t have.Īfter you choose that option, the computer will reboot immediately, and then give you these two options:Ĭhoose whatever option fits you the best, and the computer should start resetting:Īfter a couple of reboots, you will be presented with a fresh install of Windows 10įollow the configuration wizard after that. After a while of keeping the Shift key pressed, this screen will pop up:Ĭhoose the Troubleshoot option and hit Enter.