Happy Saturday Faithful AtA Readers!
No you are not having Deja-Vu, we pushed this back up to the top for two readers - Joe in Massapequa and Arman out in Saudi Arabia. We received a number of emails regarding Dell and their no recovery cd policy by default. Yes you need to request the CDs now for an additional modest fee. At first we were all like... Whaaat the fu..... And then we realized before we could finish our profanity that there was a piece of paper that looked like a recovery cd that shipped with the laptop talking about a recovery partition.
This turned out to be the easiest return to factory default on 10 Inspiron 630m's. These machines are in the field and don't get anything other then antivirus from us. So a custom image for them was on my mind but it wasn't really necessary. I set all the machines up to restore and then created a batch script on my server to push the antivirus and change a few settings.
So the magic key combination if you missed it in the title of the post is
Control + F11 - and just follow the prompts! This is a great feature Dell - You should let the public know!
Edit: Dell Doesn't generally let us know, so that's why we have www.AskTheAdmin.com! - C64
Edit: Dell Doesn't generally let us know, so that's why we have www.AskTheAdmin.com! - C64
