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Wiping my laptop
thorpe
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My laptop (a Dell Inspiron running Vista) feels clogged. I've extremely limited in my technical expertise, but I was thinking of just wiping it and going from a blank slate. Is there a way I could go about doing this via system restore or something similar? If I wanted to save a handful of files, how would I go about doing it? This is feasible right?
I could use some pointers from more intelligently minded folks.
I could use some pointers from more intelligently minded folks.
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You also might want to take the time to figure out a regular backup system if these files are important to you, as a hard drive crash could cause you to lose it all.
Secondly, your Dell will have a system recovery partition. There should be an option when it is booting to enable this and do a system restore, which will either do a basic Vista restore, or more likely bring the system back to factory specs, ie just like when you first turned it on. This means you'll lose all personal data on the system, so be thorough when backing up personal information.
Lastly, I would advise you providing us additional details about your system specs and exactly what the problem is. Doing a restoration is a scorched earth approach and should be really saved until no other alternatives are available.