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Question

My Dell XPS 630i desktop will not restore system

by Jan 12, 2012 8:18AM PST

I have Windows XP professional. Originally my system came with VISTA and Windows XP. Dell techs. re-partitioned the drive to 85% Windows and 15% Vista . Since it came with VISTA 85% and it was crap.
Now when I try to restore system to an earlier date, it fails each time to restore. I can only restore to today's date.
The system will not stay in sleep mode and switches on automatically.. When the system is boots up it locks on the DELL bios screen. The screen shows message floppy disk failed.
If I tap F8 key, the Windows XP screen comes on.

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Have you got the Restore discs that came with it?
by Forum moderator Jan 12, 2012 11:49AM PST

You may have had to burn them yourself.

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Re: system restore
by Forum moderator Jan 12, 2012 5:02PM PST

I assume that with "system restore" you mean the system restore that's built into Windows XP, not the system recovery (back to factory conditions) that mr macfixit means. A common cause for system restore failing is that you run Norton anti-virus.

However, any problem with booting and waking up prematurely is OS independent. So whatever you do withing XP will not make any difference. So there's no reason to do anything.

For the boot problem with the floppy disk, I'd boot into the BIOS setup and check the boot sequence. Make that hard drive first (or, if you prefer, cd first and hard disk second), anyway floppy last. There wouldn't be any need to try the floppy then for the BIOS.

While in the BIOS, also check the wake-up options. Should be set to none unless you need one of the options to be active.

Kees

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