The system is shipped from Dell initially with a factory image on the HDD which includes the operating system, drivers and the applications that automatically comes with the system.
As you have replaced the HDD the system image is also not available anymore to restore the system back to factory settings.
If you want to install the applications that came along with the system you may do that using ‘My Dell Downloads’. For more information, please refer to the link: http://bit.ly/11g5GGv.
You may use ‘Dell Backup and Recovery Manager’ in case the system gets corrupt. However you have to create an image of the system in it’s current state using ‘Dell backup and Recovery Manager’ to use it in future in case the system crashes. Please refer to the link: http://dell.to/12d47Zv
Please feel free to reply for any further questions.
It depends. If your PC has a virus restoring from any backup (Dell or Microsoft) may not fix it, because if the virus was there when you did the backup the virus will be there after the restore. Your best protection is to install a good anti-virus/spyware program, keep it updated, and scan for viruses on a regular basis. I've used McAfee for six years with no problems and not one virus, but there are many other good anti-virus/spyware programs to choose from.
DELL-Amogh G
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April 18th, 2013 03:00
Hi Speciall,
The system is shipped from Dell initially with a factory image on the HDD which includes the operating system, drivers and the applications that automatically comes with the system.
As you have replaced the HDD the system image is also not available anymore to restore the system back to factory settings.
If you want to install the applications that came along with the system you may do that using ‘My Dell Downloads’. For more information, please refer to the link: http://bit.ly/11g5GGv.
You may use ‘Dell Backup and Recovery Manager’ in case the system gets corrupt. However you have to create an image of the system in it’s current state using ‘Dell backup and Recovery Manager’ to use it in future in case the system crashes. Please refer to the link: http://dell.to/12d47Zv
Please feel free to reply for any further questions.
mesa_jake
7 Posts
1
April 28th, 2013 18:00
It depends. If your PC has a virus restoring from any backup (Dell or Microsoft) may not fix it, because if the virus was there when you did the backup the virus will be there after the restore. Your best protection is to install a good anti-virus/spyware program, keep it updated, and scan for viruses on a regular basis. I've used McAfee for six years with no problems and not one virus, but there are many other good anti-virus/spyware programs to choose from.