Re: Want to Reformat have questions

spikevash13 wrote:
I have a Lenovo N100 laptop that only has 30 Gigs left of the like 120 but I dont know how I got down that far anyways. But my problem is when I bought the laptop it did not come with a vista cd.


That, sadly, is very common, nowadays.

Legally, the OEM has met it's contractual obligation to Microsoft by providing a means of returning the PC to its ex-factory state, whether it's a Recovery CD or a Recovery Partition. They are not legally obliged to provide a true installation CD as part of the sale. Reputable, customer-service aware OEMs, do provide a full OEM installation CD, that does permit custom installations and repairs. However, many uncaring OEMs, such as eMachines, Compaq, HP, and Sony, in an effort to save pennies and reduce their support costs by having to hire support people that need only say "Boot from the Recovery CD to return your PC to its original condition," provide only a CD bearing a disk image of the hard drive as it left the factory.

Essentially, it boils down to "You get what you pay for."


So I was wondering how can I reformat this computer?


Simply follow the recovery instructions provided by Lenovo. They'll be located both in the manual that came with the laptop, and on Lenovo's support web site.


And if I do reformat it somehow will the programs it came with be on there?


Only those applications that were part of the original disk image created at the factory will be restored when you restore the OS. All others will need to be re-installed from the media from which you originally installed them. Again, read your manual.



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