How to reformat my laptop - Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook

To factory reset your Dell laptop, follow the guidelines mentioned on the link below:
http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/19/DSN_362066/EN

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If at all possible, a whole new fresh start means, "Reformat".

Backup if at all possible and then go ahead & follow the steps to Reformat.

Note:.... Reformat will erase everything and you will have a laptop, like when you first bought it.

Good Luck

If it shutdown while reformatting the hard drive, restart from a installer CD/DVD and reformat the hard drive before installing the operating system.

You can reformat and install a fresh copy of Windows on your Dell laptop using the Recovery CD for your model laptop.
You can get the Recovery CD from the Dell WEB site. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

There is software that will do just that, www.download.com or www.ebay.com Type: reformat, or erase hard drive

Have you installed the driver for your touchpad that comes with your laptop? That's the common problem when you reformat your laptop that something that worked previously then after reformatting that something don't work anymore. Remember that reformatting erases everything including drivers, special programs that comes with youre laptop. You mustve at least the drivers at hand before refromatting. Check youre manufacturers site if you do not have the drivers. A quick tip when searching for drivers is type the manufacturer first ex. Sony, Toshiba then put in space then add in the word support.
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to reformat your laptop you have to reinstall your os fully, if you reformat your drives just right click the drive and click format so that your storage drive will be reformat. Good luck ! if you think your problem solved don't forget to rate

Instructions

1. If you have the recovery cd, you can just pop-in the CD, select the reformat option and the installation process will continue automatically. Some laptop might have a special partition in the drive contains the operating system, drivers, etc. in case you want to reformat your laptop without the CD.
2. If you don't have the recovery CD, you usually can request one from the manufacturer. Otherwise, if you want to do a clean install, make sure you download all the drivers for your laptop, this may includes: motherboard, chipset, graphic card, sound card, modem, network card. Once you do that, put in the OS CD and start installing.
3. If you decided to do a clean install without the recovery CD, it would be best to create partition on your harddrive first, so you can have dedicated partition for operating system and backup. The next time you want to reformat your harddrive, you can just reformat that particular partition ex. C:\
4. After the reformatting process finished and you have installed a new clean OS. Install drivers one by one and restart when it's required. Try to do it in order from basic function -> secondary ex. motherboard, chipset, graphic, sound, modem, networking, etc.
5. Install back all programs that you might need. If you already backup the installation programs or have the installation CDs handy, you can do this pretty fast.
6. Rearrange the look and customize your new operating system, refer to the screenshot you have taken earlier before the reformatting process begin if you want to get the same look and feel.
   

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when you put in the windows installation disc and restart your computer you will get a screen where you have the option to delete and reformat any existing disc partitions, choose delete current partition and reformat in NTFS and then you can install windows on newly formatted drive

you need to obtain a windows cd and use the setup to completely reformat the drive