How to Use the Recovery Drive on a Dell M1210
The Dell XPS M1210 is a notebook computer with a 12.1-inch screen. The M1210 features an integrated webcam, an nVidia Go 7400 graphics card and an Intel Core Duo processor. Instead of including troubleshooting and recovery discs with the computer, Dell creates a small recovery partition on the hard drives of all of its computers. This recovery partition contains software that is used to restore the computer to factory settings. Prior to using the recovery software, be sure to back up all your data as it will be erased during the recovery process.
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Instructions
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Save all of your important data contained on the computer to an external storage device, such as an external hard drive or flash drive. All data on the computer will be erased during the recovery process.
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Click the "Start" menu and then "Shut Down" to turn off the computer.
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Turn on the computer and press the "Ctrl" and "F11" buttons simultaneously when the Dell splash screen appears.
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Click "Restore" on the recovery screen.
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Click "Confirm" to confirm that you would like to restore the system and begin the restoration process, which takes less than 10 minutes.
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Click "Finish" after the restoration is complete to reboot your computer.
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Click "Yes" on the first screen that appears when the computer reboots and then click "Next" from the System Restore screen to reboot the computer once again.
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Click "OK" when the computer reboots once again to begin the computer setup process that was initiated the first time the computer was turned on.
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