Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?

I've done it before with my inspiron laptop. I just don't feel like calling up dell and waiting 2 hours on the phone. I've tried everything including disk cleanup, defrag, and removing programs. I think I have elements of programs left on my computer. I just want a clean slate. Anyone have any answers?Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?Should have come with a recovery CD or a recovery partition on hard drive.



Check www.dell.com support area for specific info on your partitular machine as some were on hard drive some on CD



The website doesn't have a 2 hr wait !



REMEMBER to back up yer files first, the recoery option WIPES all your documents too!!!Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?
ctrl and F11 key on boot up to access the recovery. It will image the hardrive to original.

IF the computer was ever "Rebuild Winxp Install" ( like the idiots at CompUSA do), then you need to rebuild the Master Boot Record to access the hidden partition Recovery. There are some tricks to do such on the internet. Not easy but works.Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?Use the recovery CD that came with your laptop and re-install everything. Its far easier to start over completely than it is to try and remove single programs, they leave behind files which are never deleted and soon slow down a computer system.
Hi. I'll check but I think it was something like %26lt;Ctrl%26gt;%26lt;Alt%26gt; e.Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?If this computer hasn't been restored before using the CD then the combination of the Ctrl+F11 when you see the Dell logo at boot-up will take you to the Restoration screenDoes anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?
With a dell desktop or laptop u should get a windows disc with it etc windows xp or windows vista.



Reboot your pc after u have backed up all your data u want to keep because your hard drive will be totaly wiped out. When pc boots click F8 or if it boot into cd automaticly leave it and click any key when it saids. Make sure the disc is in the disc drive before u reboot. When setup loads go through the options and it should start formatting the hard drive and then reinstalling a fresh copy of windows on it. After installation has done go to dell sopport desktop and find your desktop or laptop moddel and download the drivers off the site. Now u should be good to go.
A few ways to do this..



Pick up an XP cd and run it through your system and reformat the hard drive, (either way you will lose everything, so save what you want to keep). Once reformatting the hard drive, re-install the operating system.



Or, each newer operating system has what is called a system restore setting, you can try using that in the Tools menu from the Start button.



Or, use the factory default setting on the computer. When you start it up, there should be a section there where it says to press something to start it up, use that. It is completely self-guiding, dont worry about it.



Shoot me an email if you get stuck.Does anyone know how to restore a dell computer back to its factory installation?
The computer came with a CD for doing just that.

Insert the CD, turn the unit on, and follow the instructions.

If you don't have the CD that came with the unit, there isn't such an easy answer, other than ordering a replacement CD from DELL, or getting a generic Windows CD and manually doing the install yourself, finding all the drivers you need off the internet and burning them to a CD before you start.
It should have come with either a Recovery CD, where you can just pop that in and redo it, or sometimes, when you reboot the computer you can hold down a certain key, say for example "C" but you have to check with dell on that