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    Best Method to Wipe / Clear Memory on Acer 4720Z

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by holiday5000, Jan 26, 2012.

  1. holiday5000

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    Hello, thanks for the great forum.

    I have an older Acer 4720Z laptop that I am not using anymore that I plan to loan to a friend.

    The laptop is running Vista home edition, and has minimal software installed.

    I have a variety of personal information on the machine that I have already backed up and moved to my new laptop.

    I now want to wipe / erase / clear the laptop to bring it back to factory standard specs for this OS.

    I don't think I have the original CDs that came with this as I bought it like 4 years ago.

    Is there a way that I can wipe the harddrive and just bring it back to the basic original OS? Thanks.
     
    holiday5000, Jan 26, 2012
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