Restore system to Dell Dimension 5100C

PastorP · Postby **PastorP** » October 13th, 2011, 5:02 am

Does anyone have knowledge about a Dell Dimension 5100C? Does it have a Shadow Drive to use to restore the computer to the setup that came with it when it was new or will we have to use the setup disk?

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » October 14th, 2011, 12:31 pm

Yes, I believe the key on bootup is <Ctrl><F11>

PastorP · Postby **PastorP** » October 14th, 2011, 12:56 pm

beckrl wrote:Yes, I believe the key on bootup is <Ctrl><F11>

Thanks, the computer belongs to a friend and we found out that not all of this particular computer had the shadow drive, this happens to be one of them. Restore disk are not ordered.

Wonder why I quit using Dell products?

Penny · Postby **Penny** » October 14th, 2011, 2:21 pm

I love dell, my daughter has a dell

But she wants a Mac

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » October 15th, 2011, 2:12 pm

PastorP wrote:
beckrl wrote:Yes, I believe the key on bootup is <Ctrl><F11>

Thanks, the computer belongs to a friend and we found out that not all of this particular computer had the shadow drive, this happens to be one of them. Restore disk are not ordered.

Wonder why I quit using Dell products?

Yep, I worked on my sisters Dell laptop that the hard disk got to hot and corrupted the system files. I tried the recovery parition and got it to work, but it lacked many of the device drives which I had to download.

Well as you may know it wasn't long before she called me again. This time I had to replace the hard disk and I order the systems disk.

I come to realize that Dell's not alone with issue there are Hp, emachine, gateway...That's why I build my own.

Jude 2