How to restore your computer to factory settings without a disk?

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Can I restore my computer back to factory settings without a disk?

My computer's manufacturer is Dell. It has 2.00GB (RAM) and my OS is Windows Vita. My computer has been messing up a lot lately, telling me things like: Windows Installer has stopped working. And it refuses to let me install things that I have downloaded. A few minutes ago Google Chrome crashed for no apparent reason and Mozilla Firefox does the same. I've read a few of the questions on here about this sort of thing and I've noticed that most replies have something about a recovery (D:) drive. My...

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I believe you have to have a disk at least that'swhat everyone always tells me' and i have no disk'...

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How do i restore my windows xp computer to its factory settings without use of a disk?

ok dont tell me its impossible but i need my computer reset to its factory settings without a disk. i did not lose it but my computer is terrible and has gotten to the point where it will not read any disk whatso ever so i need to restore it without...

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If you have another computer available you could try to copy your windows disk to a flash drive, but...

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How do you restore your computer to factory settings without a disk?

i have a touchmate desktop with windows vista on it i am going to sell to one of my friends and im trying to restore back to its factory settings but i have no disks please help

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it's been a while but HP had a restore partition and i think you get to it by holding down F11 during...

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How can I restore my computer to factory settings without a disk?

its a pentium dual core cpu windows vista and theres just too many problems with it and i'm running out of memory and theres too many files to go through and delete so i'd rather just reset or restore it. help!!!

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If you could format C: drive, how would you restore windows(you can't, anyway). You would get an error...

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How to restore dell Inspiron computer with windows Vista to factory settings using a disk?

Hello everyone, I want to do a DELL PC Recovery to factory settings. I accidentally deleted the recovery partition a while ago, so I have to use the CD that came with my PC. I don't want to REINSTALL the windows completely, so please don't tell me to...

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As far as i am aware you cannot repair or recover that windows without the partition which you deleted...

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I can't get windows to start on my Compaq Evo and I don't have a setup disk how do you restore the computer back to factory settings without going into windows?

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format it with an operative system C.D

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How do you restore a Sony Vaio laptop to factory settings without having the computer disk that came with it

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First you must erase any data that is preventing a system restore/default setting. Then you select options...

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Can I restore my computer to factory settings if disk drive won't open?

The only thing I can do on my computer is in the BIOS setup. HELP!!

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What version of windows? Or MAC?

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What do i do if i want to restore my gateway computer to its factory settings but i dont have a recovery disk?

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If you don't have either you are going to have to contact the PC maker and get them to send you a disk...

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I want to restore my computer without the disk?

I have a windows 7 dell and want to restore my computer back to factory settings but i dont have the disk, but i was wondering of any method to make my computer somewhat like factory settings or faster. By the way I dont care if all my documents are...

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Since this will probably happen again you might as well get the OS disk. You gotta have spare parts...

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