If you use recovery disc, you need to change the first boot order to CD/DVD in BIOS.ģ. For example, recovery partition key for Acer is Alt + F10, Asus – F9, Dell– F8, HP – F11, Lenovo – F11, Samsung – F4, Sony – F10. The laptop from different manufacturer may have different specified key for recovery partition.
At the Windows start-up, press the right key or key combination to boot into recovery environment. If your laptop enables fast boot, which is enabled by default in Windows 8, you may need to disable it.Ģ. Before you do, you need to check if the recovery partition is intact on your hard drive in Disk Management, and backup your files, you can follow the steps below to start factory reset.ġ. Since factory resetting will erase all of your data, you may want to backup files before performing factory reset laptop. Some laptop manufacturers build a hidden recovery partition, which works the same as the factory recovery disc, on the laptop hard drive.
Then how to factory reset a laptop? Generally, laptops come with a recovery disc (CD or DVD) that allows you to reset your PC to factory settings.
When your laptop is running slowly or you want to give the laptop away, you may want to delete everything and reinstall Windows, which can be easily achieved by doing a factory reset.