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Dell Factory Image Restore
So my Dell Inspiron 1545 recently had a problem where it went into a self repairing loop. I could not fix it, and being fed up with this I reinstalled windows 7. However I have notice a few changes from my old desktop, ( i never really had anything on the computer except documents so I didnt change appearance) anyway there used to be a dock on the side of my screen that had grouped the internet and other programs, and when I pressed any of the "F" buttons a little image used to appear to know I pressed it. Needless to say I miss all those items I once had, That they were already put together when I received the laptop and I remembered when I hastily reinstalled windows that i remember seeing a Dell Factory Image Restore... which for some dumb reason I do not know why I did not try.... now I tried going back, but it has disappeared. Is there anyway I can get it back?
The discs Dell has sent me with the computer are the OS disc, Application Disc, and the Drivers and Utilities Disc .
can anyone help?
Thank you
fireberd
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May 14th, 2011 13:00
First, you've posted your Laptop problem in the Desktop section. There is a separate section for Laptops.
Many Dell's have a recovery partition on the hard drive that allows reinstalling back to the original factory setup and no discs are required. If the PC was delivered with XP it's CTRL/F11 at power on. If it was delivered with Vista or Windows 7 it's F8 at power on.
There is also a specific installation sequence for a Manual reinstall/
HERE is the Dell reinstall instructions.