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Hello,  I want to format and recover my factory setting for my Dell Inspiron 1525 and when I tried to use Recovery Manager or Recovery Disk Creation I couldn't find them I tried to search but still they don't exist! My laptop did not come with Windows Vista CD and the store told me just use Recovery Manager if you want to format and install Vista again!  Pleas Help 
 I can't format my vista on my dell 1525!