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Dell PC Restore
Name: zchisme Date: February 12, 2006 at 07:07:15 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 512 MB Product: Dell Dimension 3000
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I have a Dell Dimension 3000 and its about 8 months old. It was starting to get slow so I decided to use the Dell PC Restore to restore my computer to when I bought it. My Question is Does Dell PC Restore Reformat your Hard Drive? Because In My Music folder and My Documents Folder, all of my stuff is still there from before. Would I be better off just to reformat and reinstall with my xp cd?
Name: street1 Date: February 12, 2006 at 07:35:57 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: Arctos Date: February 12, 2006 at 12:22:14 Pacific
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You had better start to learn how to make regular backups of your personal data.
Back up now, avoid heartache later.
Unity is strength.
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Response Number 3
Name: zchisme Date: February 12, 2006 at 16:23:16 Pacific
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No, I don't think you understand what I mean, I backed up everything I wanted. but after I ran dell pc restore everything was still there, as in like NOTHING was removed. So I don't really think its formatting my harddrive is it?
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Response Number 4
Name: Bryco Date: February 13, 2006 at 03:49:15 Pacific
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The Dell PC Restore you speak of...did you envoke it by restarting the PC and on the quick flash of the Dell.com screen press Alt+F11 or by some other means?
The above mentioned will wipe anything that was there before running it and placing it back to the factory settings.
Bryan
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Response Number 5
Name: zchisme Date: February 17, 2006 at 13:55:31 Pacific
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