My Dell Inspiron Desktop computer needs to be restored to factory settings. It appears that it does not have the required partition to do the ctrl+F11 restore. I no longer have the system restore CD. I do have the operating system CD as well as the Microsoft Office suite, but that is about it.
Can I download and burn to a CD the System Restore disk?|||You don't need the system restore disk.
Format the hard drive and install the O/S - and then Office.
You might have to hunt down some drivers for specific pieces of hardware that windows doesn't automatically install (usually suggestable anyway to make sure they are all up-to-date).
A 'restore CD' puts two tons of crap on your machine - the same way they come from dell. I've been extremely happy with my dell desktop and laptop machines, but the first thing I had to do to both was to uninstall all of the extra garbage - isp installs, bloatware, 'sample' and 'demo' software, etc.
A clean install is better than a system restore any day of the week.
If you have files to get off, there are ways of doing that. Search online for suggestions.|||Sure, illegally. A system restore disc is just a copy of Windows and you use it to reformat the hard drive.|||Your operating system cd should do the job, also check out the dell website most manufactures have that sort of thing available to freely download from there site failing that ringing up and sounding nice might get you what you want.
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