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    Wipe laptop?????

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ashley_fenlon, Feb 28, 2011.

  1. ashley_fenlon

    ashley_fenlon Newbie

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    I have an acer laptop with windows 7 and I was wondering how to wipe it but leaving the operating system on 'cause I don't have a windows 7 disc????
     
    ashley_fenlon, Feb 28, 2011
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  2. Nomanslan369

    Nomanslan369 Newbie

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    Why do you wanna wipe the drive when you wanna keep the OS unless ur trying to wipe ur history ? Anyway... you can always back up the system on some discs then download "Parted Magic", Google shows their site and its free. Burn Parted Magic to a disc or use it in a flash drive to preform tasks such as, reformatting, partitioning, wiping, ect.

    Are you by chance talking about wiping the history like secure cleaning? If so, I know Ccleaner has an option to perform Guttman wipes from ur history and its also clean. "Webroot Windows Wash" is another option but you must burn that to a disc or use a flash drive and then you boot into it and wipe ur whole drive that way too.

    Either way, make sure you have the back ups that you made so that you can just put those back in and reformat. Ooooooor..... just install some sort of Linux distro, I use Ubuntu and I will never go back to Windows period.

    Install Parted Magic to a Flash Drive in Windows
     
    Nomanslan369, Feb 28, 2011
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  3. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    Are you sure you don't have a built-in recovery drive ??? you don't usually get discs with new Acer machines you get a recovery drive ... reboot & press Alt+F10 while booting & tell us what happens
     
    MahmoudDewy, Feb 28, 2011
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  4. mdott

    mdott Notebook Geek

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    1) Follow this Clean Install Guide for your acer machine. In that link is a link to a thread that has the install disks. Just make sure you make the recovery and drivers disks first (eRecovery program).

    2) If you don't want to clean install, just make the recovery disks and restore the computer.

    Option 1 would be ideal.

    Good luck.
     
    mdott, Feb 28, 2011
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