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arsh007
arsh007
1 Copper
‎08-26-2009 05:21 AM

Accidently formatted my laptop

Hello All

My niece accidently formatted her dell inspiron laptop 1520 what can be done in this situation. She cant even find the cd's which came alon at the time of purchase

Can Some1 help her  out.

ThankYou

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fireberd
7 Plutonium
‎08-26-2009 07:30 AM

Re: Accidently formatted my laptop

Many Dell's have a restore partition that will restore the PC to the factory setup without discs.  It''s CTRL/F11 at initial boot up for XP systems and F8 for Vista.

If that will not work, replacement discs can be ordered HERE



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Dell Inspiron 15 - 5577 Laptop

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Windows 10 64 bit Pro and Windows 10 Insider Program Beta Versions. SSD drives. Cakewalk by BandLab and Studio One 4.1 Recordng Studio Software.

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Rebel9
Rebel9
5 Tungsten
‎08-26-2009 08:59 PM

Re: Accidently formatted my laptop

Just out of curiosity, how does one "accidently" format a disk ? ? ?

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