The Touchsmart 300 clear for resale (don't have no Windows discs)

I have a TouchSmart 300 and you want to sell and if you need to restore it to factory settings and do a thorough cleaning of the memory of the passwords, data personal, etc. The problem is I do not remember how I've implemented the pc originally, i.e. If I just turned on it and it is good to go or if I had install disks and can not find.

How could I go to achieve this goal, so I can sell it with confidence that all my data has been erased?

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