I have a gateway laptop LT4008u I need to know if anyone can please help me learn how to restore it back to factory settings.

If you have a start up recovery disk, you can use that. Or if it has a recovery partition you can use that. This is an error that could be related to a file missing or the whole hard drive going bad.

Hello Denise,

According to Gateway, if you press the F11 key at startup you should be presented with the Gateway System Recovery option. That will allow you to restore your computer to it's originally installed state.

You can find more info in the following link: http://support.gateway.com/s/SOFTWARE/Medialess/FAQ/SUPPAGE01su44.shtml

Good luck

You will need to go to the Boot devices section and select start from External drive

In the interest of theft provention, this info is not easily attained if it is the bios password

Press the F11 key at startup. This should bring up the Gateway System Recovery option. That will allow you to restore your computer to it's originally installed state.

Click on Start -> All Programs -> Scroll down to Gateway (or type Gateway in the line) -> click on Gateway Recovery Management -> click on rider "restore" -> click "Restore System to factory default".

You can restore the computer back to factory default,to do so, follow the below steps:
Turn Off the computer, now as soon as you hit the power button, keep on holding "Alt" key & keep on tapping "F10" key, i.e Alt+f10, it will open the recovery console, select full factory restore and follow onscreen instruction. NOTE: This will erase all the datas on the computer.

If the above mentioned steps are not working then you need an RCD to do so. Contact the Gateway support.

Gateway Direct systems went "media-less" back in September 2004. In the event of a system crash users could either 1) restore their systems from the Recovery Partition OR 2) from the backup media that they were prompted to create on first power-up -- which would provide them with up to 5 blank CD-R discs depending on their system's configuration.

On the factory load of the hard drive, the recovery partition will not contain operating system files. It only contains application and driver files.
The first time the recovery partition is used, it prompts the user to insert their System Recovery CD/DVD to copy files from the CD to the recovery partition.
The Drivers and Applications CD is not bootable and does not contain Operating System files.
The System Recovery CD/DVD is bootable but does not contain any application or driver files.
If the end-user erases the hard drive and restores the computer using the System Recovery CD/DVD and an Applications and Drivers CD, the recovery partition is not recreated.

This means that you will need the operating system restore disc FIRST then the recovery partition will work for you

If you want to do the factory recovery, 3 ways to do the system recovery
First way
1 login to windows
2.click Start
3. click All programs
4. click Gateway
5. click gateway recovery manager
6. click restore
7. select systems recovery to factory defaults

Computer will restart itself and start doing the system recovery itself, All you need to do is follow the screen