The first is the less extreme
of the two. It reinstalls Windows 8 but preserves personal settings and
personal data. It does this by saving the settings and data on a separate
partition in the hard drive, installing a fresh copy of the operating system
then restoring the data and settings.
It also preserves any Windows8 modern apps that were installed on the machine. Traditional Windows apps,
however, have to be manually reinstalled.
Reset lets users start
over. It wipes away the operating system, settings, data and applications and
reinstalls a factory-fresh copy of Windows 8. It's as if the machine is fresh
out of the box.
Windows 8 offers what it calls
a thorough option for wiping out data during a reset. If the purpose of
resetting was to erase sensitive data from the hard drive and make it
unrecoverable, the thorough option writes random bits over all sectors of the
hard drive. While it doesn't make the data unrecoverable, it would require
expensive gear that most people can't afford, Microsoft says.
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