Factory Reset Lenovo Windows 7
Laverne Levenstein
You can use Lenovo OneKey Recovery, it's a pre-installed backup and recovery software that comes along with a factory image of your computer, with OS, some necessary drivers, pre-installed software. Also, you can use Reset this PC on your computer. If you forget password, using installation disc will be a better choice. Besides, you still can use one more powerful onekey recovery software.
In Windows 11/10/8.1/8, there is an easy way to reset your PC by pressing and holding Shift key while clicking Restart button. However, in this way, you need to select the user account and type password. If you forget the password, you still can use the installation disc to avoid typing password. Here I'll use the installation disc as an example to show you the detailed steps.
Besides the built-in tools, some users choose to use a reliable third-party one key recovery software to protect their computer, AOMEI OneKey Recovery, for example. It does not come along with a factory image, but you can create onekey system backup when you get it for the first time. And it allows you to schedule backup system with daily, weekly, monthly scheduler, thereby keeping changes between previous backup and the next one.
Then, you can easily reset Lenovo desktop to factory settings in Windows 11/10/8/7 or just previous status with everything on it. It works even you use all the unallocated space and change the disk space of system drive. And it applies to all brandy computers, , such as, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and ASUS.
AOMEI OneKey Recovery works only when your computer runs smoothly or it is slightly damaged. If it fails completely, you cannot use it for system recovery. To avoid such a situation, you can use one more powerful backup software - AOMEI Backupper Standard.
Similarly, it will create a system image including everything on the system partition and allow you to schedule backup it. By default, this software backup only changed files, which greatly saves disk space and backup time. The difference is that the backup image is not saved on a bootable media and you can create one separately. And you can recover system in any situation, even it is unbootable.
Hope the above ways can help you perform Lenovo desktop factory reset without any obstacle. If you want to do Lenovo desktop factory reset but forget the password, use Reset this PC with help of installation disc. In the long run, it's suggested to backup system with a reliable backup software and restore from user backup instead of factory image. It will not include your personal data and software that does not come along with your computer.
AOMEI OneKey Recovery is a good choice. It allows you to continuously protect your system with its Scheduler feature. And it can be used on many brand computers (Lenovo, Dell, HP, etc) and supports all the Windows systems. To backup and restore system for unlimited computers, or has the need of providing billable technical services to clients or customize UI, try AOMEI OneKey Recovery Technician or Customization.
Resetting a PC to factory settings not only helps users to solve most of the system and program troubleshooting problems but also restores a computer that had become slow to the performance state when it was purchased.
When your laptop is not functioning normally due to system and hardware failure, the user can press the Novo button or just poke it with a pin to access the Novo button menu.
Therefore, it is necessary to make a backup of your Lenovo laptop before resetting it. Although you can manually copy and paste the data you create copies, we recommend using a professional and high-performance tool - EaseUS Todo Backup Home.
EaseUS Todo Backup Home is a third-party offline backup software that takes care of not only backups of any files and disks, but also restores system and personal data for users. With the advanced backup features it offers, you can set up multiple automatic backup schedules at the same time and use different backup modes to accomplish smarter backup tasks.
If your Lenovo laptop is working as it should, then you can use the easiest way to factory reset it - through the Recovery function that comes with Windows. The details of how to get this goal are as follows:
Suppose the PC is not running properly and you encounter situations such as a black screen with no cursor, computer crash, virus invasion, etc. In that case, you can reset your Lenovo computer via BIOS.
BIOS is the first program that runs along with your computer's startup and is designed to service your system and various programs, and can restore your computer to its factory state if something goes wrong with it to ensure that your computer still performs at its best.
It doesn't matter if you do not have a password for your computer to log in to your Windows account and the computer itself is not equipped with a Novo button. In addition to entering the BIOS, you can also enter Windows Recovery Environment to factory reset your Lenovo laptop without a password and Novo button.
This post shows you how to factory reset Lenovo laptop without Novo button in 3 ways. If your PC can run normally, you can use the Windows built-in function to reset your PC from Settings> Recovery. If your PC meets something wrong, then you can try to factory reset the Lenovo laptop from BIOS. If you have no PC password and no Novo button, then using the Windows RE to enter the reset process will be a great idea.
However, in any case, please make a backup of your computer before resetting it to prevent important data from being irrecoverable. In this regard, EaseUS Todo Backup will come in handy.
You can reset your Lenovo laptop to wipe it and delete everything. The reset process will delete all your data, including user information, personal settings, files you have saved, applications you have downloaded, etc. After the reset is complete, your computer will be restored to its factory state, just as it was when you purchased it.
I am trying to restore it to factory settings but none of the F keys I have tried will get me in. There is no Novo button and Recovery in System does not work. It is running on Windows 11 (which could be the problem). The reason for factory reset is, it is over loading on storage but can't see how. I am going to restore it back to Win 10 which is what it came with and hope that fixes whatever its problem is.
If you can't, then the only other thing I can think of is to disconnect the main battery i.e. unplug it from the motherboard and then disconnect the coin cell battery -round black insulated object seen in the middle of the laptop in your images, and then press and hold the power button operated for 30 seconds and then release it.
This will reset the BIOS back to default settings so hopefully when you reconnect the coin cell battery and the main battery and then try to start it you can get into BIOS using one of the methods you already tried, to then change the boot order.
The reason why Win 11 may not have worked well is that you have limited storage of only 64GB. Windows will use about 27GB-32GB but that is only for the OS not for any programs that may be installed with it. This could get you up near 45GB so not much space left for your personal data and other 3rd party programs you have installed.
The best you can do with this type of motherboard arrangement is to insert the largest capacity micro SD card that you can afford (or want) and insert it in the card reader port on the left side of the laptop and leave it there and configure it as a 2nd storage drive for the laptop. i.e. make the C: drive (the eMMC storage) the primary drive for the OS and any programs that you install and on the SD card (you nominate the drive letter e.g. F drive,), you have all the personal data folders i.e. Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Videos etc so all your personal data is on the card. Search online for how to configure a2nd drive as a storage drive in Win10/11
The advantages are that you have increased the storage, your data is easily accessible if the laptop fails for any reason (simply remove the card and insert it in a card reader connected to a PC - recovering data is not easy to do on a failed laptop having eMMC storage - so do regular backups of your data if you don't like the idea. Also the card is unobtrusive and it doesn't protude from the case.
The downside is that it is so easily removable so subject to theft if you leave the laptop unattended in public places for a minute e.g. libraries etc but people would have to know it's there. I won't tell if you don't ;-)
You mention changing the boot order so that when I use the Recovery drive it will boot from the USB not its own drive. However, I can only do that from the BIOS menu (?) and that is the problem, I can't get it to the BIOS. Any ideas. Will continue hunting myself. Thank you.
If still no good, disconnect the battery and then remove the SSD from the motherboard then reconnect the battery and then check if you can get into BIOS and change the boot order to USB 1st boot - save the changes.
Here's the hardware maintenance manual for the laptop. Go to p.29 and p.34 to view the procedure to remove the battery and the SSD respectively. You may not have to actually remove the battery just disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard as described in the manual
Wow you don't sleep much (not sure where you are though). Ok did various combinations of F2 and Fn (F2 on its own repeated press, Fn +F2 repeated press, hold Fn and repeated press F2). No joy. Will try your next stage. Also tried Lenovo's diagnostic tool and said all was ok, Thank you.
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