Operating system reinstallation – Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012, Late 2009) User Manual

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Restoring Your Operating System

Click

6.

Dell Factory Image Restore. The Dell

Factory Image Restore welcome screen

appears.

NOTE: Depending upon your configuration,

you may need to select Dell Factory Tools,

then Dell Factory Image Restore.

Click

7.

Next. The Confirm Data Deletion

screen appears.

NOTE: If you do not want to proceed with

Factory Image Restore, click Cancel.

Select the check box to confirm that you

8.

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.
Click

9.

Finish to reboot the computer.

Operating System

Reinstallation

Before You Begin

If you are considering reinstalling the Microsoft

®

Windows

®

operating system to correct a problem

with a newly installed driver, first try using

Windows Device Driver Rollback.
To roll back a device driver:
Windows XP

Click

1.

Start

Control Panel.

Double-click

2.

System.

On the

3.

Hardware tab, click Device Manager.

Right-click the device for which the new

4.

driver is installed and click Properties.
Click the

5.

Drivers tab

Roll Back Driver.

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