i just got my laptop in 2008 and i want to completely reformat it to where it is exactly the way it was when i got it....system restore doesnt seem to work. Any help would be great! oh and its windows vista!
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Jump to PostCheck your owners manual, there is normally an easy way to boot your machine and do a complete restore to its original condition. On Dell it is Crrl and F11 as it boots. Others you may need to boot with the CDs that came with the laptop. Without more information …
Jump to PostHow long ago? If it has not been overwritten, there are plenty of tools which will recover the deleted partition. One is Partition Wizard 5.0 [get the bootable cd iso using another computer, burn a cd, use it to boot your own sys and then scan the disk].
Another is …
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