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[New] Vostro V13

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Johnny T, Dec 8, 2009.

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  1. lovecd

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    Anybody knows how to restore to dell's factory settings on V13?

    Thanks!
     
    lovecd, Feb 26, 2011
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    Are you refering to Dell's driver download site? I checked, but did not find the driver for 5620 on E4310 model, any ideas?

     
    lovecd, Feb 26, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Are you talking about the recovery partition?

    Should be F8, Repair my Computer and Dell DataSafe. Make sure you back up your data.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 26, 2011
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    I did press F8 during booting up, but did not see option of "computer and dell datasafe", any ideas?

    Thanks!

     
    lovecd, Feb 26, 2011
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    There is no Repair My Computer option at the very top? Your recovery partition might be hosed. Is your laptop still under Dell warranty? Did you make recovery media?
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 26, 2011
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    I found Repare my computer, but have no luck finding "dell datasafe".

     
    lovecd, Feb 27, 2011
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    Should look like that. You may need recovery media from Dell if you didn't make them. Is your unit still under Dell warranty?
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Feb 27, 2011
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    Thanks! I did see this page, but only the first 5 options, no last one. Don't know why like that, is it because I upgraded it to 64 bit version?

     
    lovecd, Feb 27, 2011
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    If you deleted all the partitions or made it all 1 big unpartitioned space then yes you wiped out your recovery partition. Unfortunately you will need the Dell recovery media or the recovery media you made when it was brand new. There's no way to restore the recovery partition again unless the drive fails and Dell sends you a new one. And a good 50% of drives that come back from Dell under warranty do not have the recovery partition or the OS preinstalled.
     
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    Actually I did not delete any partitions when doing upgrade, just simply installed the 64-bit version on the current C drive, and it shows the new windows dirctory created and changed the previous one to *.old. So, I don't understand why I can't do recovery. Any ideas?


     
    lovecd, Feb 27, 2011
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