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Vista and Windows 7
System Restore instructions.
System restore from F8 startup or Windows
Disk.
Windows system restore has been changed from the older ME or XP versions
of System Restore. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 Microsoft has added a
way of getting to the system restore by using the Windows disk or Using
the F8 startup function.
Here are the steps to do a system restore from the F8 or Disk
(Disk has to be a Retail, OEM, or Dell to work): (First! Back up your information to another
computer if you can. you may be having problems with a hard drive that's
failing)
Starting with the computer OFF.
Push the power button.
Right away start tapping the F8 key. You should end up with a black
screen that has about 12 choices.
Note : If starting from a disk you
will see this image instead of the Advanced Boot Options screen above!!!
Click to enlarge image. Opens in new window so you don't go away from
this page.
Using the up or down arrows on the keyboard select "Repair Your
Computer" (If using a Windows disk, Start the computer to the disk and then choose
"Repair Your Computer")
When starting from the disk your system will also look for Versions of
Windows and you need to highlight your version and click next. Notice
that for this picture I used a Vista disk and it found Windows 7 so it
would not let me move on.
Repair will ask you about language and keyboard layout. I normally just
click next button.
The system will ask you for the username and password.
Select your user from the Drop Down menu and if you have one, put your
password in.
Click OK
This should get you to a window with choices like "Startup Repair" and
"System Restore" etc.
If you want to you can try startup repair but this may not fix your
problem.
Click System Restore.
This will start the system restore software built into Windows or the
disk. Don't panic if the program doesn't come up right away. I have had
to wait as long a 10 or 15 minutes before the program finally pops up.
When the program starts it will normally give you choices of several
different restore points. I normally pick one about two restore points
back and go from there.
Once the restore is complete you can restart your computer if it doesn't
do it on its own. When the computer restarts hopefully your computer
will startup to your desktop and not have any problems. If it doesn't,
go into system restore again and try another system restore point
further back.
Once in a while I find that there are no system restore points
available. In this case you can close the System Restore program and
open the "Command Prompt".
When it opens you should see a black box that looks like the old DOS.
In the box start typing chkdsk /r
Now push enter.
This is a way of repairing Windows files and checking the hard drive to
see if its bad. It will take a long time to run it. Several hours some
times.
If these steps don't work you will normally end up doing a full Windows
Reinstall.
IMPORTANT!!! If you get your computer up and running again, scan it with
a hard drive diagnostic tool like windlg from Western Digital. If your
drive is failing you may be able to clone it to another drive and save
yourself from having to reinstall everything after you just fixed
Windows....
Good Luck. Hope this helps.
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