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fortress65

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Vista Home Premium 32bit insprion 1420 laptop
When this laptop was new a reciovery d -drive was setup i think ...:rolleyes: it shows c drive and recovery d ...

now im haveing trouble with my laptop and would like to know what steps i take to set this laptop back to the out of the box condition ..should i use the recovery d to set it back? or do i use the os disk that came with it ?

please help
 

My Computer

System One

Either - the o/s disk is for if you can't use the recovery partition - they both do the job.

Will be quicker from the recovery partition.

Thanks to :Chelet at NotebookReview

Press the F8 key at startup
Choose "Repair Your Computer"
Choose keyboard layout
Enter your user name and password
Choose "Dell factory image restore"
Choose Next
Tick box to reformat and restore to factory condition.

Hope it helps.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
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