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    Help with cleaning my HDD

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by flOw_wOlf, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. flOw_wOlf

    flOw_wOlf Newbie

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    Hi I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that's going a little down hill. I was wondering if there was another way to make it like when I just got it (at least hdd wise I know deteriorating CPU, RAM, etc... won't recover). I've read about a Factory Reset, but I don't have any recovery disks (Dell never gave me any, the disks I mean are the ones to boot Windows XP and any other disks you can think of, I think people only mean the OS disks...right?) System Restore isn't an option because to save memory my laptop cleans any restore points older than a month. So again is there any way to get my laptop back to near-out-of-the-box condition, that doesn't require System Restore, or OS recovery disks?

    Thanks a lot.
     
    flOw_wOlf, Aug 29, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Just call Dell and ask for recovery disks. They should ship them free. If not, you can order from Microsoft for like $10.

    Use the recovery disk to format your hard drive and erase everything on it, and install Windows fresh.
     
    Mastershroom, Aug 29, 2009
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