This feature is normally available when you are setting a login password to your Windows. If you have this disk, all you need to do before your factory reset is to insert the disk into the computer, then click the "Reset Password" link that appears on your sign-in screen.
If you want to know how to reset a Dell laptop with Windows XP but you do not have the login password, then you should pay attention to the steps below to serve as a guide for you:.
It is advisable to back up all your vital files before resetting your Dell laptop. However, if you have failed to do that and now cannot find some important data after the factory reset, you are in luck.
You know why? It is simply because there is an app that you can download and install and then use to get back those missing data. This tool can recover files in all versions of Windows and Mac OS. It can also recover data in over a thousand file types and formats.
It has been configured to support file recovery from scenarios such as formatting, deletion, drive issues, system crash, emptied trash, virus attack, SD card errors, and so on. In these three simple steps and minutes, you can use Recoverit Data Recovery to retrieve your missing data after a factory reset on your Dell Laptop:.
Select the location where your data is missing from, then press "Start" at the bottom right of the interface. The app will scan the chosen location to find all your missing files. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Ringer77 2 Bronze. Inspiron Mini 10 Factory Reset.
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Choose a keyboard layout and click "Next", then select a local user administrator recommended , enter their password or leave blank if no password and click OK. The last option on the menu that shows is for "Dell DataSafe Restore Select "Select other System Backup and more options" and click next.
Select "Restore my computer" and click next. You should now see a backup called "Factory Image", select it and click next. There are a few more screens asking if you want to backup first, I skipped this because I already made a backup.
Let it format and copy files back and click restart when it's done. If you don't see image, you may be missing restore partition, it is hidden and I wouldn't go making copies of yours to give out because it probably has your windows product key embedded.
LMAO at this thread still being active for 2 years. The laptop was sent back those 2 years ago. It's cool that help for this problem is being found. I was personally told by dell that my laptop did not come with a factory restore. I've tried that, it doesn't work. The computer just boots straight into Windows XP. The only function keys that bring up anything are just F2, F8 and F But none of them would have this option.
F2 is just for the bios, F12 the boot options and of course F8 is typical Windows. I went to Disk Management and it doesn't show that there's a hidden partition at all that would have the restore there.
Just a tiny diagnostics partition. This To draw in by establishing a partial vacuum , I want to restore the netbook back to it's factory settings.
Is there anywhere out there that has the factory restore as a disc image that could fit on an SD card to reinstall it? I use a 2 gig SD card on the Dell Mini 1 0. You might be right. When I went to install Windows 7 on mine, I did notice a restore partition on the disk but it was tiny.
Didn't think much of it and merged it to reclaim the space. Not sure if this will help you, but you can definitely boot off of an external CD drive - if you have one, you can boot off that with the restore CD that came in the box. Either that or make your SD card bootable which should work, as I think the card reader is connected internally by USB and copy the CD contents on to that.
To check if you have a recovery partition, go to start, right click on computer, click manage.
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