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Can someone please explain how to restore a computer

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I had never know technolgy could deteriourate so fast until I got this Dell Dimension 4550 two years ago at Christmas and now it his so messed up, that I hit it regularly just for spite.

I've been trying all day to restore it... But it just won't work.
How does one wipe the entire hard drive clean and start over?

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Dell's computers usually come with a restore CD, which restores the hard disk back to its factory configurations. That means you might want to do backup copies of everything you currently have. Try to have a copy of any driver software of any hardware you might have installed. After you restore the hard disk - and I'm not so sure how efficient those Dell CDs are, as I have never used them - you might want to re-do all the windows updates patches (which might take quite a while).
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ok what you do is you take a boot disk/ system restore disk and put it into the cumputer. (the nortan antivirus CD is a boot disk) then you restart your computer. right when your comp is starting up b4 it goes into windows you have to press one of the 'F' buttons( it is either f8 or f12 i cant remeber). once you hav done that a little menu will pop up. youll have options like start up in safe mode or do a quick restore or a full reformat so on and so forth. choose your option if you have a System restort CD choose the quick restort and the computer will do everything its self. this includes installing windows and everything. if other choose full reformat. once this is completed( depending on your comp and the size of your harddrive it could take a couple of hours) your comp will restart and you put the windows CD in and start installing windows.

tip. firsthing you do when your reformat is done. install your antivirus, secondthing dl updated windows. this is before you do ANYTHING. dont even look around your computer just install and update. if you dont do this youll get visruses coming out of your ass within an hour.

P.S. if the reason your reformating is because of viruses then backup only what you need. worms are really good at hiding is unexpected places.
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Now my highspeed internet is working on a computer that works. It rocks.

Now only if I could get the sound drivers fixed.

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Go to the manufacturer site for your sound card and d/l the latest version of the drivers for your card, but make sure that its for the appropriate OS; this should clear up any sound driver difficulties after you install the drivers.

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Originally posted by: Shimraa
ok what you do is you take a boot disk/ system restore disk and put it into the cumputer. (the nortan antivirus CD is a boot disk) then you restart your computer. right when your comp is starting up b4 it goes into windows you have to press one of the 'F' buttons( it is either f8 or f12 i cant remeber). once you hav done that a little menu will pop up. youll have options like start up in safe mode or do a quick restore or a full reformat so on and so forth. choose your option if you have a System restort CD choose the quick restort and the computer will do everything its self. this includes installing windows and everything. if other choose full reformat. once this is completed( depending on your comp and the size of your harddrive it could take a couple of hours) your comp will restart and you put the windows CD in and start installing windows.

tip. firsthing you do when your reformat is done. install your antivirus, secondthing dl updated windows. this is before you do ANYTHING. dont even look around your computer just install and update. if you dont do this youll get visruses coming out of your ass within an hour.

P.S. if the reason your reformating is because of viruses then backup only what you need. worms are really good at hiding is unexpected places.


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k good this thread has served its purpose

Dead Thread.