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Paul H

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Sep 18, 2009, 10:26:37 PM9/18/09
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I have an Acer 4730Z w/Vista Home Premium. I want to put it back to factory
condition. How? Is there a hidden disk partition that will do it for me?
Press some key while start-up is going on? I have 2 "recovery disks". Can
I use them? How? TIA, Paul

Happy Oyster

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Sep 18, 2009, 10:43:07 PM9/18/09
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:26:37 -0500, "Paul H" <NoSpampho...@att.net>
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Don't you have a handbook or at least a sheet of paper with a description how to
do it?
--
Charles Berliner: Geschichte der Anna�lle

http://www.ariplex.com/ama/ama_anna.htm

Paul H

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Sep 18, 2009, 11:13:32 PM9/18/09
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I'm going to sell it, and the instruction manual, etc. has not been out of
the shrink wrap. But I have Googled, and have some ideas. Thanks,
anyway...

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Happy Oyster

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Sep 18, 2009, 11:20:01 PM9/18/09
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:13:32 -0500, "Paul H" <NoSpampho...@att.net>
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>I'm going to sell it, and the instruction manual, etc. has not been out of

>the shrink wrap. But I have Googled, and have some ideas. Thanks,
>anyway...

Then you have a problem because it is a MUST to completely erase all private
data on the HDD.

Paul H

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Sep 19, 2009, 9:25:45 AM9/19/09
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I used Acer eRecovery to cause the hidden disk partition to reformat the
disk and set Windows to factory condition.

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Don Phillipson

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Sep 19, 2009, 9:20:50 AM9/19/09
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"Happy Oyster" <happy....@ariplex.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:13:32 -0500, "Paul H" <NoSpampho...@att.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm going to sell it, and the instruction manual, etc. has not been out
of
> >the shrink wrap. But I have Googled, and have some ideas. Thanks,
> >anyway...
>
> Then you have a problem because it is a MUST to completely erase all
private
> data on the HDD.

I see no major problem, so long as Vista allows the user
to delete all files dated since he first started using this PC.
(Non-data files essential to Vista will be protected by Vista.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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