Can't factory restore

Hi, When your system restarts displays message to enter in setup mode. Whatever it shows KEY to enter like F10 or F12 to enter setup, press the key and enter into setup then select Restore Factory Setting by selecting the option from the list.

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1.Turn of your computer
2.Restart your computer
3.repeatedly press the F11 key
4.when you hear beeps or see a logo screen,release the F11 key
5.if you set a rescue nand recovery password,type yor password when prompted.The r&r workspace opens after a small delay

select the option restore your system

If your Lenovo desktop is pre-installed with Windows operational system, press one-key reset key when your laptop is power off. Or press Shift + B to come back to factory setting instantly when Lenovo desktop is open.

Or press F2 when your Lenovo desktop is powering on. Few seconds later, a dialog pops up with several options, one-key reset and reset factory setting. Follow the operation wizard to reset factory setting is OK.

Related topic:

How to Factory Reset Samsung laptop?

Is there an option in the BIOS to turn off recovery look under options like "start up" or "recovery" in BIOS.



To get in to BIOS there will be an instruction soon after you swith on, press F11 or somthing.

Hi

Another way to run the system recovery is RUNNING ON ADVANCE BOOTING OPTION by pressing F8 key when booting up and choose system recovery or restore factory setting.

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Hi,

Ctrl + F11 works with DELL desktop/laptops with XP operating system to restore computer to factory settings, that too if your recovery partition is intact. So, If you have the same configuration and you are pressing "ctrl + f11" correctly on the dell logo when it comes in the begening, It should work.

If its not then your recovery partition might be damaged and you need a windows disk to repair/reinstall windows.

Otherwise, if you are using any other operating system like "windows vista" or "7", follow the below process.

Power off the laptop. Remove any peripheral devices such as speakers, printers or flash drives that are not necessary to this operation. Connect your laptop to power/adapter.

Very Important: Please make sure you have backed up all important data because restoring your device to factory settings will result in loss of all data and software, Though all software that came preinstalled with the computer will come back.

1. Backup your important data in external hard-drive or flash drive.
2. Shut down the computer.
3. Turn the PC back on and hit the F8 key repeatedly until the Advanced Boot Option Screen appears.
4. Click "Repair Your Computer" if you are not already on it and then press ENTER
5. Choose your keyboard & language options and click OK
6. On the "System Recovery Options Screen" click "Complete PC restore" which is probably the second last option.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions
8. When prompted, click on "Full Factory Recovery"
9. Click "Next"
10. Click "Yes"
11. You may notice for a while it seems like nothing is happening, give it some time.
12. After some minutes, recovery will complete and you click "Finish".

13. Computer will restart and it will boot to desktop just fine. It might ask you to configure some settings as this is equivalent to starting a new computer.
Cheers.!!!

Hi shaw_dominic,

You can perform a recovery from the partition on the hard drive from either the Start button or F11.

To restore the system from the partition, follow these steps:

1) Access Recovery Manager in either of the following ways:
- Select Start > All Programs > Recovery Manager > Recovery Manager.
- or -
Restart the computer and press F11 while the "Press for recovery" message is displayed
on the screen. Then select Recovery Manager.
2) Recovery Manager opens.
3) Click Advanced Options.
4) Click System recovery, and then click Next.
5) Follow the on-screen instructions.

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Arun Zac

Your Computer is shipped with the Recovery partition, a hidden partition in the Computer. You can use the Recovery partition to reinstall the preinstalled Operating System, Applications and the Drivers. Please note that performing a System Recovery will delete all the data from the Computer and restores the Computer back to the factory settings. However, you can backup the important data using the Rescue Data feature available in the Recovery Center (Recovery partition). Let me provide the complete details to backup the data and to perform the System Recovery.

• Please restart the Computer and press the F10 when the VAIO logo appears to access the Recovery Center.
• Please select Rescue Data option to backup the important data.
• You can save all the data present in the C Drive by selecting Automatic Rescue Data option and you can backup the individual data or folder be selecting Custom Rescue Date option.
• You can copy data from the hard disk to an external hard drive, external flash media drive, recordable Blu-ray Disc, DVD or CD.
• Once the Rescue Data option is done, please select Restore C Drive option in the Recovery Center to restore the Computer back to the factory settings.
• This should resolve the issue.
• You can view the steps mentioned in link below

http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalId=C473668

Please let me know if this does not work.

Good Luck!!!

You can backup the data and restore it to factory settings.
Please restart the Computer, press the F10 key at startup to access the Recovery Center.
Select Rescue Data option to backup the data to an external USB Hard Drive or thumb Drive or CD/DVD Disc..
Select Custom Rescue Data option to backup the individual data.
Once the data is backed up, select Restore C Drive option to restore the Computer back to the factory settings.

If you want to reformat to factory condition, then press Ctrl + F11 at start-up when the blue bar comes up with "Dell.com" on it. If you miss it then just let it start up, then restart and try again. If it still does not work, press F12 at startup and select recovery option. Please note, if you have deleted the Dell Recovery Partition this will not work for you. You will need to reformat by inserting your Operating System CD at Startup and booting from that (F12).