I guess you diddn’t understand ...
I want to wipe the disc CLEAN with a 35-pass gutmann erasure.
THEN, I want to reload the Windows 7 OS. MOST OEMs DO NOT provide a disc anymore with new PCs - the OS is pre-loaded. The OEM wants you to burn a restore disc first thing out of the box.
When you do that, the bloatware is also copied.
SO, if you THEN erase the HD and perform a restore - you are back to square 1 WITH BLOATWARE ...
What I want to know is IF I can get a Windows 7 OS disk from Acer.
IF NOT, then I guess I need to burn 2 discs ...
Comprende?
Likely a failure.
What does W7 do that you can't lie without?
Boot Linux.
Likely a failure.
What does W7 do that you can't live without?
Boot Linux.
Remove the crapware, and THEN burn your recovery images. Should be easy enough.
Nope, there is no manufacturer today that supplies an OS disk with their PCs. They stopped doing that about the time win98 came out. I would imagine an agreement with MS is the reason. The answer in your case is to do what I did. Buy a copy of Win7 and then format your C drive and put Win7 on it. That is the only way you will be able to do what you are asking.
I think what you want to do is a waste of time. Just go into “Programs and Features” in the control panel and uninstall the ones you don’t want, like everybody else does.
“I want to wipe the disc CLEAN with a 35-pass gutmann erasure.”
A little anal, aren’t you?
That will probably take a weekend.
This is a new machine, right? What could possibly be on its disk that would need more than an ordinary repartition and format to get rid of? All anyone looking at it with forensic software would see would be scattered remnants of the crapware. And not even that after a full, one-pass format.
If you live in a town with a mom and pop computer repair shop, ask them if they can wipe it clean and re-install without the bloat and then give you a clean restore disc. Or maybe they can provide you with a clean disc, once you prove to them you have the OEM software.