Need to restore but do not have a restore point or recovery partition.
Hi guys. I have an HP Notebook 2000-365DX with Windows 7 Home Premium. Its so cluttered and I need to restore back to original settings. I had installed Ubuntu (partitioned) a while back and was very stupid because I deleted my HP Tools recovery partition. Now, I have searched here on HP.com to order a recovery disc and apparantly I cannot find one for my specific model. So what I have done is downloaded a Windows 7 Home Premium .iso file (thanks to a kind soul on these forums) and I am needing to download all the drivers for my laptop as well but HP is having some issues right now so I can't download them (which is fine I'm in no hurry). So that's about as far as my knowledge goes. I have my Win7 disc, and will hopefully soon have my drivers disc. What I don't know how to do is erase my computer to start from scratch installing Win7 again then all my drivers. I have read that DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) wipes your hard drive clean but that seems very extreme. Seems like I would use that to erase my hardrive if I were selling my laptop or erasing evidence, but if that's my solution then I am cool with that. So really, I'm wandering what I should do now. And will I really have to re-install my drivers as well? Any help would be so greatly appreciated!!!!!
Hi, You can remove all the existing partitions on the HDD during installation as follows. Start the installation. When you get to the 'What type on installation' screen, choose the Custom ( advanced ) option and then click on Drive options (advanced). Here you can delete all the existing partitions one at a time by click on the partition to highlight it and then selecting delete. When done, you will have just one entry named 'Unallocated space' - just proceed with the installation. Regards, DP-K
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