Comments on: How to start factory OS restore on a Dell

By: jdog

jdog — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:53:14 +0000

thank you!it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Monique

Monique — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 02:39:59 +0000

I have a Dell utlrabook latitude e7250. I can’t remember my password and I want to just erase the hard drive without a disk or usb. is there a way for me to erase the hard drive without paying to do it??

By: Aaron Mason

Aaron Mason — Fri, 15 May 2015 00:47:39 +0000

Confirm that this works great on a Dell Latitude E7440.

By: Brent

Brent — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:18:45 +0000

After I get to step 2 and press REPAIR YOUR COMPUTER
it brings me to the normal sign in page..

I do not get to step 3 – system restore option box doesn’t appear on the screen

Any help would be appreciated

By: Leslie T

Leslie T — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:31:17 +0000

My husband has the xps L702X with Windows 7, he just had to do his quarterly password changes at work (which means he changes all of his passwords). He usually writes down his new laptop one for me since his had programs my doesn’t but he got distracted by our baby and he forgot to. Now since he only has the one account (I have no idea why he didn’t set up a separate one from the administrator), he can’t get into his laptop at all since he forgot what the new password is.

We get into the F8 screen to do the repair and try to log in for the factory restore but since we don’t have his new password we’re just going in circles.

He never set up a restore disc when he first got this laptop so we are trying to find a way to do a factory restore without a disc and his new admin password. Is there a way to possibly do that?

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:58:52 +0000

In reply to bedun. @ bedun, Was your hard drive reformatted at some point? Was your laptop supplied with a recovery disc?

By: bedun

bedun — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:23:21 +0000

i can’t find “Dell Factory Image Restore ” why??????

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:02:57 +0000

In reply to Arun. @ Arun,

And now i have installed the OS but i couldn retrive the old datasâ€¦ Is there any possiblity to do so

First of all, stop using this drive ASAP. Chances to get your data back are not very good. You can try running recovery software (GetDataBack for example) and scan the drive. Use option to scan for data after OS reinstall.

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:21:05 +0000

MY laptop is 6gb ram with1tb har disk and i5 processor and i felt like system is slow and decided to run the OS again. My recovery disk didnj’t work but it formatted the whole drive. And now i have installed the OS but i couldn retrive the old datas… Is there any possiblity to do so

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:31:46 +0000

I hit f8 and get the Advanced options menu but no repair option. I would orders discs but my notebook don’t have a disc drive what can I do now. When trying to boot it up it says windows could not start because following file is missing or corrupt. \windows\system32\config\system