Quck Restore system restore

[Th3xTruth]

my dell is all messed up i have dell 6000

i want to do a restore of the full system like and get it to the date i first bought it ..is this possible or what is the best thing i can do...

besides..the dell one they give me which is poor..

[leeer73]

my dell is all messed up i have dell 6000

i want to do a restore of the full system like and get it to the date i first bought it ..is this possible or what is the best thing i can do...

besides..the dell one they give me which is poor..

I just did this on my 9300. Reboot your pc, at the "dell" screen, when the system first starts to boot up, hit Ctrl+f11 a few times. That will send you to a page that allows you to restore to the factory specs. Waring!! You will lose all of your crap!! and this installs the dell system the way it was when you originally received it including all of the bloatware! Good luck!

[bmwrob]

my dell is all messed up i have dell 6000

i want to do a restore of the full system like and get it to the date i first bought it ..is this possible or what is the best thing i can do...

besides..the dell one they give me which is poor..

Just a suggestion - before restoring to the original state, you might want to read the following, into which went quite a lot of effort:

Step by Step Guide to Clean XP Install

[JonNuttNTL]

Also you may want to look here at an indepth analysis of the Dell PC Restore feature

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm

Jon

[Th3xTruth]

I just did this on my 9300. Reboot your pc, at the "dell" screen, when the system first starts to boot up, hit Alt+f11 a few times. That will send you to a page that allows you to restore to the factory specs. Waring!! You will lose all of your crap!! and this installs the dell system the way it was when you originally received it including all of the bloatware! Good luck!

im tryin to do this but im gettin nothing..hit at the same time or hold it ..or what...

[Amber]

at the dell screen, you hit them at the same time. If you've reformatted or messed with the partitions in any way, the restore partition will not work.

SG

[Th3xTruth]

**** ive had to mess with it before..cuz it was messed up ..so now what am i left to do SG...

[Amber]

you'll have to do a clean install using the XP disk. If you don't have the XP disk from dell, you'll need to call them and request it.

[Th3xTruth]

no no i do...
so then do what they said up there and use that link for reinstallin XP and i should have it like new again..

[Amber]

yep. Just follow the guide and it should guide you through. If you don't clean installs before, then it is the same process. It is just the driver process that most users have problems with.

Might as well delete the restore partition while you are at it, and gain the space back.