Restoring Your Operating System
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8.Click the check box to confirm that you want to
continue reformatting the C drive and restoring the
system software to the factory condition, and then
click Next.
The restore process begins and may take five or
more minutes to complete. A message appears
when the operating system and factory-installed
applications have been restored to factory
condition.
9.Click Finish to reboot the system.
Reinstalling the Operating System
Before you Begin
If you are considering reinstalling the Windows
operating system to correct a problem with a newly
installed driver, first try using Windows Device Driver
Rollback. If Device Driver Rollback does not resolve the
problem, then use System Restore to return your
operating system to the operating state it was in before
you installed the new device driver. See "System
Restore" on page 28.
To reinstall Windows, you need the following items:
•
Dell Operating System media
•
Dell Drivers and Utilities media
NOTICE: If you do not want to proceed with
Factory Image Restore, click Cancel.
NOTE: Please wait until the process is finished
and the screen below appears.
NOTICE: Before performing the installation, back
up all data files on your primary hard drive. For
conventional hard drive configurations, the
primary hard drive is the first drive detected by the
computer.