Restoring laptop to original factory settings

[whosyomomma013]

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, I'm going to give it to my brother but I wanted to put everything in his name. I wanted to restore the original factory settings for him as well. I read on one of the posts that I could just hit F10 and it should restore it back to the original settings, I don't have the recovery disk for it and I really don't want to buy one if its not necessary. Can I just use the F10 step without the recovery disk? If so can someone please guide me down the right path to work it correctly.

My other problem is the CD/DVD drive only runs when I turn the laptop on its side, I've tried to clean the drive, but it still doesn't work unless I put it on its side. Do I need to buy another drive for it?

Thanks for the help.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Remember, Factory Reset will erase the entire drive and put Windows back on in first-start conditions.

What model is the computer?
Laptop or Desktop?

[whosyomomma013]

It's an Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop

[Broni]

For Dell, it's Ctrl+F11: http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm