only at the price of the loss of all data installed after the purchase by the user themselves. This means a backup of all user data must be done prior to any action.
But thank you for letting me know, albeit I am still sceptical about this. Because to bring a computer back to the state it was shipped, it is NOT necessary to 'touch' any drives other than drive C. By default, all system files are installed on drive C.
But I could be wrong. Things may have changed.
wherestip wrote:
Last Hermit wrote:
namely to REPARTITION your drive, which destroys all data on the hard drive - but this is least likely, to my best knowledge. Otherwise, it leads you to nowhere but destroys all your data on Drive C, with all others remaining intact.
But this feature is absolutely offered on all IBM laptop products nowadays.
It was designed for the sole purpose of recovering a system to its initial configuration when the system was first shipped.
I'm not sure whether this feature is offered on standalone personal computers though.
I hear you on the limitations of XP's system restore program, and agree this approach may not get rid of an unwanted OS.
Anyway, right or wrong, those were just some suggestions for Gladbeach's reference.
[Edited at 2006-05-08 04:35]
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