Restore my dell 17r to factory settings?

-i want to restore my dell to factory setting, i have tryed the easy restore system by going into the control panel, and i have tryed pressing f8 be for the logo come up when turning the laptop on and also done the f8 while the logo is there, one and several times but nothing is working. i did not get a disk to restore my laptop when buying itThese are factory restore instructions specific to the 17R Inspiron.



If this isn`t working, it could be that your restore partition has been corrupted.





1 Turn on the computer, when the Dell Logo appears repeatedly press the <F8> key until you see the Advanced Boot Options menu.



2 From the Advanced Boot Options highlight Repair Your Computer with the arrow keys and press <ENTER>.



3 Click Next >

and login to your administrator account on the computer. The administrator account is the account created the first time the computer was turned on.



4 Click Dell Factory Image Recovery and DataSafe options and follow the prompts provided.I will give the step by step procedure to do Dell factory defaults:

Windows XP:

CTRL and F11 key simultaneously when you see the dell logo after turning on the computer and follow the on-screen instructions.



Power the computer on.

When the Dell screen appears press and hold the CTRL and F11 key simultaneously on the keyboard, then release them both at the same time.

The Dell PC Restore by Symantec window appears.

Click the Restore button or press the key to highlight Restore and press the key.

A caution message appears advising that all data will be lost.

Click the Confirm button or press the key to highlight Confirm and press the key.

The Progress window appears. Once the process is begun, Dell PC Restore usually takes only 8 to 10 minutes to complete.

When the restore is complete, the message The system recovery process was successful appears.

Click the Finish button or press the key to highlight Finish and press the key.

The computer will restart.



Windows VISTA / Win 7:

Tap the F8 key when you see the dell logo. It will take you to advanced boot menu options under which you will see Repair your Computer, Select that option and enter your password if it asked, then you will be seeing a list of options like system restore, command prompt, etc., In that the last option says Dell PC restore or something like that. Select that option and follow the on-screen instructions.



Start the computer.

As the computer starts, press the F8 key until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears on the screen.

Press the (Down Arrow) to select Repair Your Computer on the Advanced Boot Options menu, and then press Enter.

Specify the language settings that you want, and then click Next.

Log in as a user who has administrative credentials, and then click OK.

Click Dell Factory Image Restore.

In the Dell Factory Image Restore window, click Next.

Click to select the check box for Yes, reformat hard drive and restore system software to factory condition.

Click Next. The computer is restored to the default factory configuration.

When the restore operation is completed, click Finish to restart the computer.



** If in both case, the Factory default didn't work, then your laptop's factory image defaults partition have vanished (i.e. Corrupted / Deleted). So you have to do Operating System re installation with the Operating System CD / DVD **
if you do perform a reset either by using the recovery disk or reinstalling the operating system please remember to backup any file of folder first because when you perform any one of these operations you will lose everything that you may have installed since buying the computer.
Have a read of Dells advice in the link below:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/g鈥?/a>

Hope that helps a bit,,Bob.