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facotry resotre?
Name: mithrandir87 Date: January 19, 2007 at 11:33:55 Pacific OS: pentium 4 CPU/Ram: 512 ram Product: dell
Comment:
isn't there a way to do a factory restore without the actual cd... i thought you could just push like f2 or one of those f buttons on the loading screen and then you could pick to do the facotry restore from there... i dont remember which button it is though... can someone help me?
Name: clammer Date: January 19, 2007 at 11:50:57 Pacific
Reply:
Dell systems shipped after July 15, 2004 came with Symantec PC Restore. This utility restores the computer to an "as-shipped" condition. If you haven't reformatted, repartitioned, or otherwise modified the master boot record, it should work. Pressing F-11 should bring it up.
Make certain you backup your important data, as it will become history after the pc restore.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: January 19, 2007 at 14:38:17 Pacific
Reply:
Dell systems for ages have used a special type of partition to hold the OEM files that can be used to restore the system. The Dell ftp site has the factory manuals still. Depends on which model has what to recover how. Some need a floppy and some use a cd while other have the data there so that you can create the cd's.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 3
Name: Bryco Date: January 19, 2007 at 16:57:20 Pacific
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From my Dell manual: Quote To use PC Restore: 1 Turn on the computer. During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen. 2 Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press <Ctrl><F11>. If you do not press <Ctrl><F11> in time, let the computer finish restarting, and then restart the computer again. End of the quote
Bryan
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Response Number 4
Name: KevinS. Date: January 19, 2007 at 17:20:22 Pacific
Reply:
On my emachines you can press F11 to format the harddrive and reinstall the os.
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