Restore

[tigerbeer]

Hi everybody....
Have a dell pc with windows vista on board....would like to completely erase everything and have a fresh pc to give to my son (as I have a new one)....can anybody help me with the best way to achieve this?

thanks

 

[mhelm1]

Check if it has a small partition on the hard drive. Some dells put a disk image of the computer as shipped. All you would have to do is boot from the rescue disk and restore to like factory.

 

[tigerbeer]

cool...i am completely computer illiterate lol could you expand slightly..cheers

 

[mhelm1]

Right click my computer on the desktop. A window opens (computer managment)
Left click on disk managment. (window changes to show hard drive)
Are there any partitions on the C: drive ?
There will be one for c: are there any others?
If so put in the Dell restore/recovery disk
Enter bios when computer restarts by hitting the del or F2 key.
in boot settings select boot from cd/dvd drive and restart.
Follow instructions

 

[JDFan]

Here is a detailed support article that explains the process from DELL

 

[tigerbeer]

thanks very much