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    How to restore to factory setting?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by corona7w, Apr 6, 2008.

  1. corona7w

    corona7w Notebook Consultant

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    I need to return a HP dv2700 that arrived a week ago. I have installed some programs and deleted a lot of the bloatwares on the hard drive. How do I restore it to its factory setting with all the bloatwares back on the hd? I did burn the recovery disc.
     
    corona7w, Apr 6, 2008
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  2. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    You put the recovery disk in, reboot and press at ESC/F8 at the boot screen and select CD-ROM
     
    JCMS, Apr 6, 2008
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  3. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah that or use the built-in recovery partition by pressing F11 on boot up.
     
    miner, Apr 6, 2008
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