E7222 Factory Reset

[artiek]

Hi all, I have an old Medion E7222 laptop. Great machine, have thoroughly enjoyed using it for quite some years now. It is unfortunately time to upgrade and move on to a newer faster machine. As part of this, I'm donating this machine to a local kids charity. what I need to do though is factory reset the machine to wipe all my data, but leave the original Windows (7 - Home Premium) OS in place. I no longer have the original installation DVD's, but there is a "Recovery" partition on the hard drive, containing what appears to be "factory" image files (see photo attached). I have no idea how to use these however... I've tried pressing F11 at startup to enter recovery mode, but the laptop just hangs if I do this! Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Artie

[daddle]

@artiek 

Hi Artiek,

normally F11 pressed at Start  calls for the PowerRecover program. But only if you haven't changed the partition scheme at all. So if you changed partition size,  enlarged  the Windows partition C and and shrunked the D partition, it  will not work anymore,

The same has happened if you have exchanged the original 500 GB HDD against a much faster 2.5" Laptop SATA SSD.

But you get a Windows 7 key  for little money. Or install Win 10 making use of the MediaCreationTool Microsoft provides

--> https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

The Win 7 key mostly is also valid for Win 10. So you could do an Upgrade --> Win10 for free 

Microsoft server registers your installation and creates an Id for your PC.

So you can go afterwards deleting the complete Win 7 to Win 10 upgraded installation;

and make a clean (empty) new Microsoft  Win 10 installation.

Success, daddle

The newly setup installation will be set active automatically