Dell Inspiron 6000 OS Recovery

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I was working on my friends laptop. He got virus infection that I couldn’t get ride of. I eneded up doing the factory recovery. I know the laptop had a recovery partition but I didn’t know the key combination to get into it. I search and search I finally found the key combination. The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them. It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.

It is a nice laptop that he got from dell. When you work on computers don’t think you are a failure if you can’t clean the virus. It is about time and money. You want to find the fastest and most economical way to fix the issue. He got a virus that I couldn’t fix so my last resort was to do the factory recovery. I asked him if there was anything he wanted me to saved and he said no. I was up and running within 20 to 30 mintues with a working laptop that is free of viruses.

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20 Responses to “Dell Inspiron 6000 OS Recovery”

Reginald on September 30th, 2008 4:26 am

great!!!you have no idea how helpful that was for.I really appreciate your help. Just one question however…did you lose all the data saved prior to the recovery or partial??
Administrator on September 30th, 2008 6:36 am

@Reginald My friend lost all of his data. When you do a system restore you are wiping your drive like you first got it from the store.

If you have a usb laptop hard drive enclosure you can take out your laptop hard drive and try to recover your data if you want to save your data.

Greg
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luke on October 23rd, 2008 6:02 pm

hi!
i have a dell inspiron 6000, my laptop is full of virus i cant get ride of. i know i should have burned the OS Tools recovery when i first got my laptop but now it seems to be to late alredy.
well i tried to burn it on cd yesterday & it didnt work out. it says that i need a CD-R that needs more than 952647680 byte…but it should work with an oridnary CD-R 700MB…..right?

uhm, where do i find factory recovery?…is that on OS Tools Recovery?

please help me out… thanks..
Administrator on October 24th, 2008 10:07 am

@Luke The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them. It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.
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Charie on January 10th, 2009 2:03 am

Hi Greg! Glad I found your page. I want to wipe out my dell 6000 as well.I want to know though, is if all drivers are automatically installed after doing a factory recovery. How about the OS? Do I need to install one? I bought this laptop 2 years ago and it did not came with any single disc. Please Help. Thanks
Administrator on January 10th, 2009 10:45 am

Charie, What the factory install does it will install the OS and all the drivers. It should install everything. My friend didn’t have any disc’s either with his laptop. It worked out in the end. If you want to restore your computer I would give it a try. You can always call dell if you need help. Greg Ellison
Steve on February 25th, 2009 10:35 pm

Help! I wiped my Inspiron 6000 completely (i.e. deleted the recovery partition) and installed XP. Only now I don’t have drivers. I know, it was stupid. The problem is that I don’t have the recovery/drivers cd. I called Dell, and they politely told me to go to hell since I’m way out of warranty. … I tried going to the dell website and downloading all 20 or 30 drivers that I need, but I still can’t get the damn thing to work! So now I have 8 items in my “other devices” category in my device manager… and I still can’t get on the internet with the poor thing. … What do I do??

Thanks much,

Steve
Haraye on July 7th, 2009 8:32 pm

Thank you very much for this insightful and helpful information!
D Hall on July 22nd, 2009 8:38 am

Great article, It pretty much confirms what most of us know instinctively (or empirically)!
Nick on September 18th, 2009 1:20 am

Thanks A Lot!! I too am fixing a friends computer and was looking for a recovery disk…I didnt know about the recovery partition, saved me a lot of work. THanks!!!!
Greg Ellison on September 18th, 2009 6:12 am

You are welcome Nick. Greg Ellison
Eli on October 19th, 2009 12:21 pm

10x man, i have looked for that information.
I might add a little tip, i had problems loading the recovery partition with left ctrl + F11, strangly just when i hit the right ctrl + F11 it worked.
So i dont know if the problem is with the laptop or a general problem, but any1 who’s trying to do it dont give up and try it both ways
Greg Ellison on October 19th, 2009 7:30 pm

Try it until it works. Thanks for posting. Greg Ellison
Steve Smith on December 29th, 2009 10:57 am

Hi Greg,

I was puling my hair out trying to fix a friends laptop until I found your tip.

Many thanks!

Steve
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Mandy on January 9th, 2010 7:52 pm

i need to know where to find the os recovery disk?
Mandy on January 9th, 2010 8:00 pm

hi yea me again…. im lost with technology can i get a step by step of how to fix this thing…. im trying to just sell it and i need it to be completely wipped clean and redone.
Ollie on June 26th, 2010 12:44 pm

Hi, I have problem with my Inspiron 6000 and find your website here…
When you say “The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post”, do you mean by “during post” ? is it the same with during startup?

TIA