I don't mean by going to system tools and opening it. Isn't there a way that I boot from a disc and choose to erase everything and have it restore itself to the day it came out of the box.
If it helps, this is a dell dimension 4600 desktop computer.
Please help because dell's website is retarded ans I don't feel like putting up with it.
2006-08-19 13:00:00 · 7 answers · asked by tenacious D fan 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You can do something called Reformatting. If you have your Windows XP CD, put it in and boot from the CD. After a while, it will ask you to set up Windows XP. Do that, select your C: Drive, and you will clear everything off of your hard drive, with a freshly installed copy of XP.
2006-08-19 13:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer should have come with an installer disc. insert the disk into the disk drive, and turn on the computer. while booting, a line of text may appear with something like this "To boot from CD press any key". as one can expect, press any key on your keyboard, and it will start the installer. If that line doesn't appear, you will have to edit your bios to allow you to boot off of a CD. Follow the commands on the screen, they will most likely all be controlled with the keyboard and not the mouse. You will eventually get to a screen that says "Select which partition to install Windows onto". You will want to delete all the partitions that currently appear, and create new ones. If you do not do this, it will just install the windows components over the old windows part, which still leaves all the other files. Select one of the new ones, preferablely the C: partition and tell it to install windows onto it. After that, follow other onscreen prompts to configure your computer correctly.
2006-08-19 13:12:03 · answer #2 · answered by jomanscool2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Format will clean off your HD for sure. I hope you made a boot disk when you got your computer. We were allowed to make only one.
It is my understanding that Dell stores 15 "system restores."
If you ever created one, wouldn't you rather go back this way instead of going through the hassle of format and reinstallation?
2006-08-19 13:16:21 · answer #3 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoe! solid question and one I genuinely have not theory-about because i exploit equipment restore now and again. I genuinely have a dire feeling that once a sensible virus is interior the computing device..the damn element is there till you employ a plague software to eliminate it or you mess round round on your computing device to manually eliminate the virus when you've its call and site.
2016-11-05 04:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by hartzell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have a 'system recovery' cd that came wiht you computer. If you put it in the cd drive and reboot, it should boot from it and give you the option to get your computer in the state how it came from the factory.
--dan
2006-08-19 13:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dan Theurer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can choose the date to restore itself as long as the restore point is what you want. Do this: Click on start..Click on Control panel..Click on performance and maintence..then on the left side of this screen you will see system restore..click on that..then a screen will pop up and give you 2 options..click on restore to an earlier time. then click on next then the calander will show up showing dates of restore points..click on the date and you are good to go. Hope it helps!
2006-08-19 13:11:42 · answer #6 · answered by gentlegiant255 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to get your pc back to factory default, you can put your xp installation disc into your drive, restart and choose advance, in here you choose deconstructive recovery. you will then after this have a brand new pc. hope this helps
2006-08-19 13:08:03 · answer #7 · answered by GeeMyKrag 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋