How to Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows 8/ 8.1 & Windows 10

In this video I show you how to remove everything on your computer and reinstall Windows 8 or Windows 10. Doing this will remove all files on your computer allowing you to start with a fresh computer or give you the option to sell your computer to anyone without your data on the hard drive or solid state drive.

If you want to keep all files on your computer, you can perform a repair install of windows.

To remove everything and reinstall Windows 10 follow these instructions:
Start Menu- type in "Restore"- Select either "Reset this PC" or "Advanced startup"

If needed, new Windows 8.1 and 8.1 Pro installation disks can be purchased on Amazon here:

Windows 8.1:

Windows 8.1 Pro:

Please review comments before posting a new question. Most questions have been answered already. I try to respond to questions in a timely manner(within 24 hours).

[busaarun]

When i try to restore my pc.. It shows SOME FILES ARE MISSING, THESE FILES WILL RESTORE... so.. Pls say me the solution to restore

[thelokowuaka]

I am doing this because it takes like 5 to 10 minutes just to open google XD

[theducks]

I get an error message saying "There was a problem resetting your PC" And there's 0 videos or anything about it

[kaitlynwood]

Thankyou so much this helped unlike the other videos I have seen telling me to download stuff.thank you!

[Ed-esxd]

Thanks. This helped out a lot. Currently just waiting for my pc to resett itself.

[generationalstewardship]

excellent! clear concise instructions with no fluff.

[soldaattiekem]

Thanks men, It helped me alot. I got alot if viruses lately en my PC got very slow. Luckky i found an video that explained it :) Thanks alot!!

[scum]

I don’t have the “delete everything and reinstall Windows” option. I only have the advanced start up option... why? My computer is so shit

[raldmaikopinca]

I did all of this and all is good except now I can't update my Windows. I'm trying to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Please help!

[Harshil]

Does this deletes everything from your other partitions as well (i.e. D, E, F) or just the drive in which windows is install..?

[ankurrana]

It will clean all the drives OR Only C: drive?

[crazyalien]

On my computer, clicking "Get Started" won't do anything. Any help?

[magnetmussel]

thank you for this vid. im not the best at a pc so this really helped

[benjaminlarin]

one question sir. does this option(Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows ) need a disc? I am worried if this will delete even my OS and will need the recovery disc so it can reinstall windows. sorry, nor very good in these kind of stuffs.

[canthak]

If the button doesn't show up underneath the setting you want go to the first profile made on the laptop and then continue it should be there!!!

[MinisterYolo]

Big Iris Productions what if you try to remove everything and reinstall windows 8 and then it says preparing then it says "insert media and then say some files are missing" what the heck do i do

[zooman]

Just a question regarding this method. Will this method also clear off everything in other partition (eg. D:) as well or is it only effecting on system partition (C:)?

[nozmulm]

Does reinstalling windows get rid of hardware errors and crashes?

[finy]

I cant reinstall says some files are missing and right is cancel buton help

[rajeevpr]

will this process formate my other drives too?