Help with dell

[michael555]

I was told my dell this laptop has a pc restore on it.

It will pre-loaded back to the fatory setting.


This will save me time putting windows xp,drivers,etc back on.

Told to press ctrl then F11 then let go.

Try this at the bios boot up screen.

Nothing works.

Please help?

 

[itsme]

I was told my dell this laptop has a pc restore on it.

It will pre-loaded back to the fatory setting.


This will save me time putting windows xp,drivers,etc back on.

Told to press ctrl then F11 then let go.

Try this at the bios boot up screen.

Nothing works.

Please help?

Did you have any discs supplied?

 

[michael555]

Did you have any discs supplied?

Got one disc called dell inspiron and xps system software.

Try this :

Just comes up with opition to test the pc.

Saved the log from dell:

1. Restart your system.
2. When the Dell screen appears press and hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard and simultaneously press the F11 key. Then release them both at the same time
The Dell PC Restore by Symantec window appears.
3. Click the Restore button or press the Tab key to highlight Restore and press the Enter key. [A caution message appears advising that all data will be lost.]
13:13:01 Sumith_Rodrigues 4. Click the Confirm button or press the Tab key to highlight Confirm and press the Enter key.
The Progress window appears. Once the process is begun, Dell PC Restore usually takes only 8 to 10 minutes to complete.
When the restore is complete, the message The system recovery process was successful appears.
5. Click the Finish button or press the Tab key to highlight Finish and press the Enter key. The computer will restart.


try all this and nothing still.

How do you press ctrl and f11.

Both at the same time.


I was told by alot of people this must be done at the right time.

 

[itsme]

Re-boot the PC now keep hiting the CTRL +F11 rapidly at the correct moment it will appear, as in XP unfortunately >if it says all data will be lost it is going to format the HDD as a restore will inevitability do this? so save what you need IE photos/addresses/data> Etc:

 

[michael555]

Dell told me if you format your laptop ctrl and F11 will not work.

Yes i have format the laptop few weeks ago.

I download a program called dsrfix.zip.

From here:

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

Tell you how you may get back Dell PC-Restore Partition.

Boot this on cd-r .

Dsrfix come up with partiton out of syn and not dell.

Any help here?

 

[Sashok_001]

Hellow I have Dell Inspiron 1501, AMD I have a Problem that really Annoys me my comp keep shutting down for over heating and i have no clue what to do with it. I was thinkin of changing coller however i dont want to dig in the hardware cuz iam not that good at it (might mess it up)