Need to restore Windows 7 to factory settings. No disc and it is a machine made to order

So no, there is not a partition already installed and I apparently failed to make a backup when I first put this machine a few years ago. Need to do a factory reset for various reasons.

If the PC manufacturer has not prepared something when the machine was new so there is no such thing as a 'factory reset '.

You need to reinstall everything from scratch.

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