So my boyfriend told me he could do it for me, but my brother told me is not that easy and that if we try to do it, i would just ruin it because laptops are not that easy to reinstall and stuff, i don't even know anything about computers, the only reason my i want to do it is to play minecraft, but it just won't work:'
Is it easy/worth it to wipe a laptop?
Guest
Haha, what? I'm sorry, but your brother is being <mean word here>. Basically what you have is a magnetic hard drive no matter what platform you use, it's not harder on either, if at all! What you intend to do is to reformat the drive, which is incredibly easy if you've bought from a tertiary producer like HP, Acer, etc… Look up how to do it, depends on your model. Most have a preboot option enabled that you can activate by hitting a certain button while starting up.
Although if I may ask, what is the problem with minecraft? You ask if it might not be worth it, but it might very well be futile. If you could post the specific error I could do more to help you with the issue.
Epsil
Wiping, or formatting a laptop is not a problem. What may be a problem is re-installing the operating system. You would need an installation disc and an installation key. You would also loose any data you had, unless you backed it up to another source. If you can't install Minecraft, it may be that there's not enough available hard drive, or not enough memory to run it, or it may not be compatible with your laptop, or a number of other reasons. Until you can pinpoint why it won't work, you may be wasting a lot of time by wiping your hard drive.
justme
Depends on the one you have. I have a Lenovo and it's very easy to reset it to factory settings. There's a button next to the power button called OneKey Recovery, you just have to press it and it takes you to the menu. I've already done so once (saving all my files to an external harddrive first) and I think it improved my laptop's speed.
It really depends on the type of laptop you have. Some require recovery disks. I don't think it's risky, but you should take good care to save all the things you need before you do it.
Sarah
Let's first define the terms posters are tossing around.
"Wiping" refers to completely erasing the hard disk, which is the last thing you should consider, and then only with great Not only are the Windows installation, installed programs, and your files gone forever, but the system recovery partition is lost as well, so a factory restore is no longer an option.
"Factory restore" is what Sarah and Epsil are referring Also called "system recovery", this feature erases just the Windows drive (not the entire hard disk), then places on that drive the original Windows installation, programs, and files provided by the In effect, you get a "factory-fresh" laptop, which is probably what you intend.
Factory restore often provides a second option that does not erase the drive, so your own data and programs persist, but replaces all the Windows system files with copies of the originals as shipped from the This is most often used to replace missing, corrupted, or virus-infected files.
A hidden drive on the hard disk stores the factory restore files and utilities, which are typically accessed by pressing a specific key during the power-up process.
While wiping affects the entire hard disk, "formatting" affects only the drive being The file system on the drive contains file and folders names, and pointers to the data the names refer Formatting places a new, blank file system on the drive, so the previous file and folder names and references are destroyed, which effectively erases the drive.
Guest