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Dell PC Restore enables you to restore your hard drive to the operating state it was in when you purchased your computer. It is recommended that you do not remove PC Restore from your computer, even to gain additional harddrive space. If you remove PC Restore from the hard drive, you cannot ever recall it, and you will never be able to use PC Restore to return your computer operating system to its original state. 1 Log on to the computer as a local administrator. 2 In Microsoft Windows Explorer, go to c:\dell\utilities\DSR. 3 Double-click the filename DSRIRRemv2.exe. NOTE: If you do not log on as a local administrator, a message appears stating that you that you must log on as administrator. Click Quit, and then log on as a local administrator. NOTE: If the partition for PC Restore does not exist on your computer hard drive, a message appears stating that the partition was not found. Click Quit; there is no partition to delete. 4 Click OK to remove the PC Restore partition on the hard drive. 5 Click Yes when a confirmation message appears. The PC Restore partition is deleted and the newly available disk space is added to the free space allocation on the hard drive. 6 Right-click Local Disk (C) in Windows Explorer, click Properties, and verify that the additional disk space is available as indicated by the increased value for Free Space. 7 Click Finish to close the PC Restore Removal window and restart the computer. Using the Operating System Media Before you Begin If you are considering reinstalling the Windows operating system to correct a problem with a newly installed driver, first try using Windows Device Driver Rollback (see "Returning to a Previous Device Driver Version" on page 52). If Device Driver Rollback does not resolve the problem, then use System Restore to return your operating system to the operating state it was in before you installed the new device driver (see "Using Microsoft Windows System Restore" on page 56). 60 Reinstalling Software

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Reinstalling Software
Dell PC Restore enables you to restore your hard drive to the operating state
it was in when you purchased your computer. It is recommended that you
do
not
remove PC Restore from your computer, even to gain additional hard-
drive space. If you remove PC Restore from the hard drive, you cannot ever
recall it, and you will never be able to use PC Restore to return your computer
operating system to its original state.
1
Log on to the computer as a local administrator.
2
In Microsoft Windows Explorer, go to
c:\dell\utilities\DSR
.
3
Double-click the filename
DSRIRRemv2.exe
.
NOTE:
If you do not log on as a local administrator, a message appears
stating that you that you must log on as administrator. Click
Quit
, and then log
on as a local administrator.
NOTE:
If the partition for PC Restore does not exist on your computer hard
drive, a message appears stating that the partition was not found. Click
Quit
;
there is no partition to delete.
4
Click
OK
to remove the PC Restore partition on the hard drive.
5
Click
Yes
when a confirmation message appears.
The PC Restore partition is deleted and the newly available disk space is
added to the free space allocation on the hard drive.
6
Right-click
Local Disk (C)
in Windows Explorer, click
Properties
, and
verify that the additional disk space is available as indicated by the
increased value for
Free Space
.
7
Click
Finish
to close the
PC Restore Removal
window and restart the
computer.
Using the Operating System Media
Before you Begin
If you are considering reinstalling the Windows operating system to correct a
problem with a newly installed driver, first try using Windows Device Driver
Rollback (see "Returning to a Previous Device Driver Version" on page 52). If
Device Driver Rollback does not resolve the problem, then use System
Restore to return your operating system to the operating state it was in before
you installed the new device driver (see "Using Microsoft
Windows
System
Restore" on page 56).