May also be able to use the Vista disk to start the recovery environment and restore: [URL]#2 I don't know if that also restores the original boot record and the F8 function, though TGSmith's method does.
Hello all, I'm new to the forum and hope people can help me out.  I just recentley purchased a new dell inspirion 518, beautiful machine, but unfortunatley i had some software issues at start up and was required to reformat my hd.  Unfortuantley at the time, I didn't know about the system restore feature, I just used the disc included with my shipment and did a clean install (leaving the recovery partition alone). My problem is now I can't restore the system to it's "original factory settings".  I know if I hit f8 at startup the advance boot option is suppose to appear with the restore dell factory settings, but when i get the advance boot options that isn't present. So my question is: How do i restore my factory settings?   Thanks eveyone
Factory restore with a twist