HP Laptop with W10 now but won't allow me to reset.

[DrJorde]

I acquired an older HP Laptop (My wife's) that started life in Vista, then had Windows 7 and ultimately Windows 10 installed. It works but is very slow. I decided to try and do a Reset and it will not allow me to do so.
I want to use this for logging (Ham Radio) and internet search's so I do need it to respond faster, hence the reason for a reset. I wanted to get it as clean and bare bones as possible.
Does anyone have a solution I may try? I am not against using Linix if it is still available as a download free. I really don't want to have to spend any more money on this. I still have the W7 Home Premium disks if that helps.

Thanks in advance, you guys have always come through for me.
Dave


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[edfair]

If it will boot to the W7 DVD a clean reinstall should work.

Ed Fair
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[DrJorde]

Thanks, I will try that.

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[DrJorde]

No luck on re-installing W7. For some reason Windows won't allow me to overwrite the W10 OS. What if I did a Format first? And if I did, I wonder if the Update disks have enough operating system files to allow the install then with a re-start?
I am running out of ideas. I looked to see if we still had a Rescue disk from when it was new but all I could find is a Ghost image of my other HP which is a 64 bit computer. This one is 32 bit.


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[edfair]

Basic step would be to delete all partitions if you are able, then allow it to create a new partition, which will work out to formatting the disk.

Haven't run across anything like this on any of the machines I put 10 on to get them registered then reloaded 7.

You could pull the drive and mount it in something else long enough to wipe the partition, or even use a Linux distribution to do the same, possibly something off an UBCD, or one of the partition managers.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.