System recovery on dell dimesion 3000 like it came from the box

keriem

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I want to know how to do a system recovery on a dell demension 3000 One place said to put operating systems disc in and restart computer then first screen u see press "r" but that didn't work it still brings everything up like ur logging on please help keri
 

geno777

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If you are wanting it just like it came from the factory ? Press ctrl+F11 at boot up. But if you have reformatted the drive you won't be able to use that function.