FreshLime Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Greetings Folks!Cutting the long story short... I have formatted my stock dell inspiron 1320 which that includes the partition label 'Recovery' [hoping to downgrade from Vista to XP, however critical drivers required are not available in XP... arrr.... so am switching back to Vista ]The OEM installation DVD that comes with the machine has weird drivers that somehow gotten my lappy to run but not the correct drivers for my devices. [Pretty much a prefectionist myself] I am hoping to get back the factory restore image to run on my lappy just like it was fresh outa of the box.Thankfully I have made a copy of all the files & folders from the "Recovery" partition before preforming a clean format. But am not sure of the steps on how to do it in getting back my factory default.Can someone advise me or perhaps other alternative solutions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingoreo Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 if you still have a .wim file that is the factory image, boot to ur vista DVDThen repair your computer than select a parition and select Restore your computer from a backup image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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