How To Factory Reset Dell Laptop With Windows 10

In this post, you can know about How To Factory Reset Dell Laptop With Windows 10. Dell is a global computer technology company in the U.S.A., and they develop various types of computers and provide tech-related support.

After using it for a long time, our laptops are bound to get slower. It happens due to the workload of various types of software. Experts say that it is good to factory reset a laptop or a PC once a year. Factory reset makes a laptop work fast. Now, we will discuss how we can factory reset a dell laptop.

How Do I Factory Reset A Dell Laptop?

There are different ways to reset factory settings in your Dell computer.

  • Firstly, make sure your laptop is charged or connected to a power source.
  • Next, go to the power button while holding the shift key, then press restart.
  • Once the computer restarts, click on Troubleshoot.
Troubleshoot
  • Then select Reset this PC.
Reset the PC
  • If you have important files that you don’t want to lose, then select keep my files. If not, select remove everything.
Keep My Files
  • Finally, answer the series of questions and select Reset.
Reset to Restart
  • Start by backing up your files and data.
  • Click Start, then click the control panel.
  • In the control panel, click system and maintenance.
  • Select backup and restore center.
  • Under backup files or your entire computer, select backup files.
  • Choose the location you want to save the backup, then click Next.
  • Select and check the boxes you want to back up, then click Next.
  • On “how often do you want to create a backup,” leave the default settings as they are, then click save settings and start back up.

Remove non-essential peripherals. These include the scanner, printer, modem, network cables, USB, etc.

To restore to factory settings, follow these steps:

  • Turn on the computer.
  • Press the F8 on the keyboard as the laptop starts until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears.
  • Press the down arrow and select Repair Your Computer.
Repair Your Computer
  • Specify language settings.
  • Log in as a user who has administrative credentials and select OK.
  • Click Dell Factory Image Restore, then click next.
Dell Factory Image Restore
  • Select yes, reformat the hard drive and restore system software to factory condition, then click next.
  • Click Finish to restart the computer when the restore operation is finished.

How To Factory Reset Dell Laptop With Windows 10?

If your Dell laptop boot normally, follow the steps to reset your Dell computers:

  • Click Search box at the desktop, and input reset.
  • Choose Reset this PC (System Settings) in the results.
  • At the Reset this PC section, select Get Started.
Get Started
  • Select the Keep my files or remove everything option according to your demands.
Remove everything
  • Click Reset to start Dell factory reset in Windows 10.

Can I Factory Reset Windows 10 Without Enough Space?

If you do not have enough space, then you won’t be able to reset your laptop. You will need to free up space.

You need at least 8 GB of space. You can use a USB flash drive or a blank DVD or backup your data and clean install the 32Bit version of Windows 10. This will give you more internal storage.

If you have issues booting from a boot disc, use a BIOS password. Insert the bootable installation media, then go to your BIOS password and make these changes:

  • Disable Secure Boot.
  • Enable Legacy Boot.
  • Enable CSM if it is available.
  • Enable USB Boot if required.
  • Move the device with the bootable disc to the top of the boot order.
  • Save Bios password changes.
  • Reboot your system, and it should boot from the installation media.

If your Dell PC got some troubles and could not boot into Windows 10/8/8.1, you have to boot Dell laptop to Windows Recovery Environment (Win RE):

  • Start the computer, it will boot into WinRE mode automatically when Windows 10 can’t boot normally. Or press F8/F12 continuously while computer starting until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears.
  • Click Troubleshoot in WinRE mode.
  • Select Reset this PC.
  • Then follow the on-screen instructions to factory reset Dell laptop without password (if you set up password for your Dell PC) in Windows 10/8.1/8.

Sometimes, You may find there is no dell factory image restore option to perform factory reset for Dell computers, don’t worry, it’s been solved.

Restore Dell Computer to default settings with powerful software

Apart from the above solution, you could create an initial backup with AOMEI OneKey Recovery at the first time after you purchase. Then restore Dell laptop, desktop or other computers to default settings. AOMEI OneKey Recovery is a professional software for Windows PCs and servers to onekey backup and restore Windows systems on any computer or laptop.

If you have used this software to create onekey system backup immediately after the purchase and nothing is added, then your Dell PC would generate an AOMEI Recovery Partition contains a system image file to restore the system. You could do Dell factory reset with the system image file in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server systems, the steps are:

  • Press the F11 or A key to enter into AOMEI Recovery environment during system startup.
Enter into AOMEI
  • Then please select OneKey System Recovery on the main window.
Onekey System Recovery
  • Choose a way to restore, and click Next. There are two ways: Restore system by using the image file in AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition; Restore system by selecting a system image file. (here take the first way for example.)
Restore system
  • Click Start Restore to perform Dell factory reset in Windows 7/8/10.
Start to Restore

No Dell factory image: create system backup now

If you have ever never used AOMEI OneKey Recovery, it’s highly recommended to try now to create an AOMEI factory recovery partition in case you have to restore your Dell computers to the previous state:

  • Run AOMEI OneKey Recovery. Click OneKey System Backup on home console.
One Key System Backup
  • Select a method to back up system: Backup system to AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition (Recommended) or Backup system to other location, and then click Next.
Backup System
  • Choose a partition to store the AOMEI Recovery Partition that will be created afterwards, and press Start Backup button to back up Windows 10/8/7 and other settings to that partition.
  • By the way, you could set up the shortcut (F11 or A key) to enter AOMEI recovery environment by clicking the setting icon in the upper right corner.
AOMEI settings

Tips

  • AOMEI OneKey Recovery also applied to other brand of computers, like Lenovo, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, HP, Sony, etc.
  • Some brands have the OneKey Recovery setting, like Lenovo, HP, etc. You could factory reset according to the specific steps from the official websites.

After you backed up, you could restore Dell computers to factory settings if required someday.

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