Dell Inspiron 530 - Manual (Page 102)

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Troubleshooting Tools
7 Click the checkbox to confirm that you want to continue reformatting the
hard drive and restoring the system software to the factory condition, 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.
8 Click Finish to reboot the system.
Removing Dell PC Restore
NOTICE:
Removing Dell PC Restore from the hard drive permanently deletes the
PC Restore utility from your computer. After you have removed Dell PC Restore, you
will not be able to use it to restore your computer’s operating system.
Dell PC Restore enables you to restore your hard drive to the operating state it
was in when you purchased your computer. It is recommended that you
do
not remove PC Restore from your computer, even to gain additional hard-drive
space. If you remove PC Restore from the hard-drive, you cannot ever recall it,
and you will never be able to use PC Restore to return your computer’s
operating system to its original state.
To remove PC Restore:
1 Log on to the computer as a local administrator.
2 In Windows Explorer, go to c:\dell\utilities\DSR.
3 Double-click the filename DSRIRRemv2.exe.
NOTE:
If you do not log on as a local administrator, a message appears
stating that you must log on as administrator. Click Quit, and then log on as a
local administrator.
NOTE:
If the partition for PC Restore does not exist on your computer’s hard
drive, a message appears stating that the partition was not found. Click Quit;
there is no partition to delete.
4 Click OK to remove the PC Restore partition on the hard drive.
5 Click Yes when a confirmation message appears.
The PC Restore partition is deleted and the newly available disk space is
added to the free space allocation on the hard drive.
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