This will take a couple of hours or more to complete and when done, your PC will start over with initial setup screens.
To do this, you press the Esc key repeatedly while rebooting and when the HP Startup Menu appears, you select the option to do the reset - usually F11. This image is contained in the Recovery partition, and if it is intact, it will generally work well. HP preloads most PCs with a compressed Windows Image that can be used to completely restore the PC to its original condition. Factory reset using internal HP image. Here are the following ways to accomplish a factory reset:Ģ) Factory reset using external HP image you makeģ) Factory reset using external HP image you buyĮach of these is discussed in some detail below. If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva Īnd, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the demo version is free Ģ) Connect the old drive, the one with the files and folders you want to recover, to the working PCģ) Connect something to that PC to hold the recovered filesĤ) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive. Your best bet for recovering data now is to do the following:ġ) Download and install this utility on a working PC. You will also need another drive large enough to hold the files and folders you want to recover because you can't recover them to the old drive. You will not be able to recover settings, website information (including user accounts and passwords) or applications. Data Recovery -Īll you will be able to recover at best from the drive is personal data. This is involved and there are different options, so I've provided details on that below, as well. Ģ) Restoring the PC - you need to do a factory reset using a new drive to restore the PC. I've provided detail info on data recovery below. So, if you want to recover data, even if the drive still works, you need to replace it.
1) Data recovery - if you reuse this drive, you will erase and possibly destroy the data on it.
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