Hey i need to reset or reboot my dell laptop inspiron 1200! How do i do it? meaning how do i erase everything and start from scratch. I called dell before and had to pay 100 bucks for them to tell me how to do it. something like holding down ctrl and f8 while restarting the laptop, but i cant remember.
2006-12-26 02:16:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anthony C 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
well if you want to reload the operating system on your laptop from scratch this is what you do:
1) Get a bootable disk loaded with the OS
2) Insert the disc in your drive
3) Make sure that in your bios you have set to boot from your cd-drive before your hard disk
4) your computer will now boot from your cd and just follow the instructions. For windows, at this point it will ask you if you want to format your hard disk and erase every thing.
2006-12-26 02:22:14 · answer #1 · answered by waterlooguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, in hp/dell talk it's a restore. if you want to reboot, that's a whole other story, and much more simpler. Try F8 or F11 when the puter is booting up, for those of you who don't know, you don't necessarily need media for restoring, the restore system creates a restore partition that has all it needs there to perform a restore. If no message appears when your Pc is booting up, look for your manual to check out which key it was (Yes, you should've saved it, along with your restore medias). Otherwise get your Dell restore medias and boot from the Cd/Dvd to perform a restore.
Cheers
2006-12-26 10:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by Julio M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey do one thing if do not have a Xp disk in dell pc there is a utility called as pc restore. The pc restore aplication is is present Dell Computers purchased after 2005.(mid 2004).All you need is to do remove all peripherals (ipod, mp3 player from laptop)
Restart the lapop on dell screen hold control and hit F11 key twice . And you 'll see Dell Pc restore (by symantec) follow on screen steps and complete the setup. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED UP YOU DATA BEFORE THIS STEPS AS IT WILL REMOVE ALL THA DATA STORED IN THE LAPTOP(INCLUDING EMAILS IN OUTLOOK)
For more info logon on to http://support.dell.com
2006-12-26 10:33:44 · answer #3 · answered by Prashant g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to erase everything and start from scratch you need a recover disk. simply insert it in the drive and follow the prompts. your system should have come with one or you should have made one yourself.
2006-12-26 10:21:19 · answer #4 · answered by mavinakdel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don,t have to reinstall windows but you can go to control panel and then add and remove programs and remove the staff you don't need will clean up and then go start programs accessories then system tools and then disk clean up that will clean up everything and also go to my computer :C: or your hard drive and then go to document and setting and look for your name or all users and go into and delete all the staff you don' t want it and and also under favorites folder and clean up you should be fine
hope i have helped
2006-12-26 10:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by nighthawk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to dell website to see what is the way to do it.
2006-12-26 10:39:30 · answer #6 · answered by zhang h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋