I have looked through my disks and I don't have a dell system disk?
I found one disk with Dell on it. It is for reinstalling Cyberlink
PowerDVD
I was looking at the Dell help files and I found instructions for
Restoring my computer to factory state. The instructions don't
mention a disk. Can my PC be restored to factory settings without a
disk? Should I have another disk from Dell?

Thanks for your time

"Terry" <kilowatt@charter.net> wrote in message
news:3c6gh3pbk3ohpe89vgt14gut2co41t7b8g@4ax.com...
hold Ctrl+F11 at start up that takes you to restore. All the info is held on
a separate partition (so long as the HD is original and Dell supplied it
this way) on the hard drive.

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:44:08 +0100, "BIC" <roller@pointbtinternet.com>
wrote:

the laptop?

Thanks

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:11:14 -0400 Terry hit the keyboard to produce the
following:

Sure, after each install of XP you've got to do this. At least this is
what I saw on a PC of a friend of mine, when I replaced his HDD. Without
activation the OS is only useable for 30 days or so. I had the PC two days
and I saw the message....

HTH....


Dragomir Kollaric

--
I use Windows exclusively.......

......... to change the cartridge for my printer,
as this is the ONLY job I'll trust it with, but nothing else.