Factory Restore 1525

Question

hi not sure if this is the right place or not but here goes

i have a dell inspiron 1525 vista home basic less than 1 year old

my harddrive is 80 GB but shows 75.4GB

now the missing GB'S is the dell Factory Restore point

after reading this forum i have gone to safe mode to restore but i dont have the option there to restore it

back to the Factory Restore

is there any other way i can restore it back to the day i got it ??

i have formatted a few times but i have used the dell disc that come with the laptop

also have gone from 1gb ram to 4gb

any help will be a big help ty

tiffany1 · Answer

oh well never mind  lol  guess this is topic finished   and ty very much for the fast answer's

ejn63 · Answer

It sounds like you've deleted it.  If you're seeing 74.5 G on your C: partition, it's gone.

ejn63 · Answer

Remember that the 80G drive is quoted in decimal, while Windows counts in binary.

That is, an 80 decimal gig drive will show up as 80 * (10^9/2^30) in binary, or the 74.5 binary gigs you're seeing - nothing is missing.

tiffany1 · Answer

so does this mean i dont have the  dell recovery  or factory restore on my hard drive ?   as there is no option for it  in safe mode (repair your pc)

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