When your Dell starts up, during the 'black screen' portions, right after
the Dell screen, Press F8 several times, and get to the menu screen that
offers to 'restore to factory defaults'
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"mamagotback1969" <mamagotback1969@xxxxxx> wrote in
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> i am trying to format my dell inspiron 1501 using windows vista premium
> and
> dont know how to format to where i dont have many copies of windows vista
> right now i am using up all my space by trying to reinstall windows vista
> and
> dont know how to get rid of them and have my maching back to the way it
> was
> when i bought it which was 7 months ago i tried restore but it didnt work
> i
> just want to format my main hard drive but it said i cant cause i am using
> that versiion of windows. if someone could email at
> mamagotback1969@xxxxxx
> how to do this i would really appreciate it thanks