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Re: dell factory image restore help
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2009, 11:33:35 PM »
Contact Dell and ask them to send you a restore disk.
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    Re: dell factory image restore help
    « Reply #16 on: September 04, 2009, 12:27:15 PM »
    will the restore disk have everything on it that my laptop came with, (drivers, software, etc) ?

    thanks

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    Re: dell factory image restore help
    « Reply #17 on: September 04, 2009, 01:56:29 PM »
    Yes.

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      Re: dell factory image restore help
      « Reply #18 on: September 04, 2009, 06:11:29 PM »
      nevermind, through some tricky workarounds using live cd's, third party programs, and dos commands, I finally restored the factory image...

      these guides really helped out for anyone else that has this problem in the future....

      http://smsoftdev-solutions.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-restore-dell-factory-image-when.html

      http://www.notebookforums.com/post3049150.html

      http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t106779.html


      thanks guys, marked as solved

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      Re: dell factory image restore help
      « Reply #19 on: September 04, 2009, 06:19:42 PM »
      Thanks for posting back :)