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    Back to origianl Install

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jfinnican, May 17, 2006.

  1. jfinnican

    jfinnican Notebook Enthusiast

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    What is the procedure for bringing your laptop back to its origianl state? What I mean is, as it was when it came from Dell, how do you execute restoring from the image on the hidden partition? I dont want to reformat and reinstall from scratch.

    thanks
     
    jfinnican, May 17, 2006
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  2. MarkMcK

    MarkMcK Notebook Evangelist

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    During a boot/restart you are first presented the Dell 'logo' screen. Immediately following the logo screen you are presented a screen which has a blue bar at the top with www.dell.com in white letters.

    When this second screen appears use a Ctrl+F11 key combination [be ready... you only have 1-2 seconds to enter the key combination].

    That should launch the Restore function.

    Note: A restore will overwrite/delete ANY files/applications you may have created or installed since you received your laptop....

    hth

    Mark
     
    MarkMcK, May 17, 2006
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