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November 7th, 2005 19:00
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:smileyhappy:Is there a way to completely wipe my hard drive out but without wiping out xindows xp? I want to get rid of all the stuff on my comp and start new but do not want to reinstall windows xp.
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When the black screen with the Dell Logo in the top blue bar appears, press and hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard, then press the F11 key, then release them both at the same time. The Dell PC Restore by Symantec window should appear.
NOTE: Only press the keys one time, if you press them more than once you will receive a keyboard error and will have to start the process over.
Click the Restore button. A caution message appears advising that all data will be lost.
Click the Confirm button. The progress window appears. When the restore is complete the message "The system recovery process was successful"
appears.
Click the Finish button and the computer should restart.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1090198&c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19
Note. if you wish to save any data, then back it up, prior to using the above.