What I lose if I did factory reset on my computer?

If I do a factory restore on my computer I'll lose all my programs, photos, music and other files?

A reset wipes everything on the hard drive with the exception of the recovery partition.

For example, if your programs, photos, music and other files were not on the computer when you bought it first, they will NOT be after a reset.

You should save all your data on an external and then restore it after the reset. The programs you have installed previously will have to be relocated from their original...

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    That was offered by manufacturers of computers on their XP preinstalled and Microsoft on purchases at retail XP too much memory.

    And you had to contact them about this.

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    If so, then let us try to repair your computer by creating a Windows 10 bootable (I.e. media USB or DVD) using media creation tool.  Use of some other PC connected to the Internet for the creation of bootable media. Once you are ready with bootable media, follow the below mentioned steps.

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      1. When the computer reboots, read on screen for instructions that explain how to interrupt normal startup and access the basic input/output system (BIOS) configuration utility. Most PCs use the F2, F10, ESC or del key to start the configuration of the BIOS.
      2. Looking for a tab in the BIOS configuration utility that is labeled boot order, The Options of Bootor Boot. By following the instructions on the screen, use the arrow keys to go to the boot order, and then press ENTER.
      3. Locate the flash USB, DVD or CD player (this could be called removable device) in the startup list. By following the instructions on the screen, use the arrow keys to move the drive to the top so that it appears first in the startup list. Press ENTER. The startup command sequence is now changed to boot from the flash drive, CD, DVD, or USB.
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    Hello, I want to restore all my files on my computer. But how to hold my adobe photoshop [12 items] and first applications, (which I bought the dvd), through a factory reset on my computer.

    Is it possible to retrieve the adobe programs after that that they have been removed (thorugh factory reset). Since you cannot use the same access key (for the program) more than once, I believe.

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    My Thinkpad T430, less than a year, is having issues - corrupted .dll files, Windows Update does not, all kinds of fun stuff. I'm waiting on someone to e-mail me own copy of the dll I need BUT I'm worried that this will not solve everything, especially for problems with Windows Update. I've exhausted almost every other option that I can find to try to fix it at this point. The nuclear option is a reset to Lenovo factory settings from the windows repair environment accessed by pressing F8 during startup, but before I do I want to know * exactly * what I would do to my computer.

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