How do I hard reset my laptop?

[steve z]

Have a Dell Inspiron laptop that I need to hard reset to get ready for sale. Could someone let me know how I do this?

[steve z]

philthy said:

Do you have any disks that came with the laptop? or is it an image on a seperate partition of your hard drive?
Browse through your installed programmes, and see if you have something like "Dell system restore" installed.

I don't. I bought it second hand initially, but i'll check to see if they're on there.

[steve z]

philthy said:

It might help if you let us know which model number it is.

Inspiron 6000 I think!

[steve z]

Thanks Neil.

How do I 'blow the Windows partition away'?