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    Sager 5793 Clean Restore Help!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by NotebookNeophyte, Dec 16, 2011.

  1. NotebookNeophyte

    NotebookNeophyte Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a Sager 5793 I bought back in 2008. It came with a System Recovery disk, original Vista 64-Bit Home Premium disk and Drivers Disk...I just sold it and am attempting a clean reboot to clean it of all my information. I inserted the recovery disk and rebooted....after all is said and done...it boots to Vista 32-Bit instead of 64-bit! This downgrades my RAM to 3 GB...why is it doing this?? There is a brief second right before it boots for the first time where it asks what operating do you want to boot and all it shows is the follwing:

    Windows Vista Home Premium
    Windows Vista Home Premium

    It doesnt specify 32 or 64...and furthermore ...it only gives you literally like half a second before it chooses the first one itself and starts loading....

    Secondly even after I let it boot up again...and before I reinstall system drivers..my Hard Drive is still almost to capacity! It's a 200GB HD and it says only 23GB is free....there is a file that says Windows.Old in the "C" drive that seems to be bits and pieces of a bunch of my older files and programs from BEFORE the clean operating system install...Shouldnt all of this have been wiped clean?? I'm not super savvy with this kind of thing ...but this doesnt seem like it should be this hard...Is there a way I can just go back to earlier today before I attempted this reboot?? Can I boot to safe mode and do a system restore somehow?? This has been extraordinarily time consuming....and a huge pain...thanks for any help!
     
    NotebookNeophyte, Dec 16, 2011
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    A Windows.old file indicates that you didn't do a clean install, but rather an upgrade. Did you specifically choose to install a fresh operating system? To edit the startup menu that you mentioned, go to control panel > system > advanced system settings > startup and recovery > settings. You can change the timer there and see which entry refers to each name in the title.

    That said, I'd suggest booting that disk again and making sure you do a fresh install. (and wiping the hard drive in the process). Use the actual Windows install disk rather than the recovery disk. The recovery disk may have been a 32 bit image as well, which explains why you're only getting 3GB of addressable memory.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Dec 17, 2011
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