Follow these instructions to reinstall the Operating System using the Dell Factory Image Restore partition, to a state that came on your computer, from the factory.
For more information about how to back up your data, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article, " Back up and restore your PC. Review the Things to consider and What you will need tabs, before preceding to the How to manually reinstall Windows 7 tab. If you have an Intel Kaby Lake processor, installation of Windows 7 is not supported. Restoring your computer to its original factory settings takes less time than reinstalling Windows 7 manually.
When you have not done so, refer to the Using the built-in Dell Factory Image Restore partition section before installing Windows 7 manually. When your notebook does not have an optical drive, refer to the Using the built-in Dell Factory Image Restore partition tab first.
When that does not work, refer to the Dell Knowledge Base article How to create and use the Dell Windows recovery image. When your computer has more than one hard drive and a RAID configuration setup, refer to the user guide or manual for your computer for information about the type of RAID configuration your computer supports. You will find instructions on how to configure it for reinstallation.
Dell Operating System Installation Disks when you no longer have your Installation Disks, refer to Dell Knowledge base article How to create and use the Dell Windows recovery image to get information about how to download an image online. Any install discs for external devices such as a printer and internal devices added to your Dell computer after purchase.
When you did not receive installation media disk with your Dell computer, refer to Dell Knowledge Base article How to create and use the Dell Windows recovery image. You may also be asked for a product key for your version of Windows. Dell recommends backing up your files and data to an external hard drive, DVDs, CDs, or other removable storage media on a regular basis. Except for the monitor, keyboard and mouse, disconnect any nonessential external device, including:.
For each external or internal devise you added to your computer after purchasing from Dell, refer to the documentation that came with the device for reinstallation instructions. Some devices require you to install the associated software before connecting the device to your computer.
For information about how to restore your data, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article, " Back up and restore your PC. Support Wissensdatenbankartikel.
I am new in this forum, and I have a doubt. I wanted to use the factory. Wim to restore the PC. I have also tried to use the PC Restore from Windows Vista, and when the software is supposed to format the C drive, shows a error, but without any message. I need to restore the PC as it came from the factory. Can anyone help me with this? I will realy appreciate your assistance Thanks on advance. El Rocko. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies Once you deleted the partition structure you cannot restore it back to factory.
I have found no articles as of yet that describe how to rebuild the Factory Dell Partition Structure. There may be a way to use the factory WIM file to restore the C partition, but I have not read anywhere about doing that either, sorry. EvoXPS 2 Bronze.
I had the same problem The bootable drive can also be used in case of boot failure. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. You should change the path of the image file with yours. Step 5. Type exit and press Enter to exit Command Prompt. Restart your computer later. Then, follow the wizard to complete the process. If you want to run Dell factory restore in Windows 7 Command Prompt, you can either use rstrui.
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