Restore Inspiron Mini 1011 to original factory configuration.

i would like to restore this mini to its original factory settings/configuration.

when i look at the hard drive through admin tools/computer management/disk management i see a partition on the hard drive labeled "dellrestore" (status healthy unknown partition, capacity 9.75 GB, 6.7 GB free space). but i can not find any way to access/initiate the restore tools ( i am assuming the 3.05 GB used space on that partition is taken up by an original image or the tools to restore) in that partition. i can not open or view the partition through disk management, the partition is not read or available through windows explorer. there are no shortcuts/links to the tools in the programs groups leading to the tools on the dellrestore partition.

i have searched the forums (admittedly i am not the foremost data miner) and only found a couple short references to this process.

i have tried F1, F2, F8, F10, F12, and ctrl F11 on boot. though a variety of options are presented none are for the dellrestore functions.

i have tired this "http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&docid=52182" option "3. PC Restore" and get "Article Not Found. The chosen document is not currently available. Please try again later". i have gone back to this several times in the last few days without finding anything different.

i am open to any ideas, am really flumiczed by this. i really don't want to just yank the hard drive, wipe it, and do an install on a raw drive.

thanks for your help.