How to reset Dell laptop to original state when encountering problems

Although Dell is a laptop line with quite good quality and high stability, it is still difficult to avoid problems during use. Resetting Dell laptop to its original state will help stabilize your laptop.

There are many reasons for you to find a way to reset your laptop, but most of the situations that many people encounter are that the computer is infected with a virus, often freezes or has a blue screen of death error. At this time, resetting the laptop will help bring your computer back to its original state, making it work more stably. Below is a guide to reset a Dell laptop, with other laptop models you can also follow the same steps.

Before resetting your laptop, what should you pay attention to?

Resetting your computer will help you completely eliminate software problems and conflicts between applications by deleting them and resetting the entire system. Therefore, you also need to note a few things as follows before resetting your laptop:

- When resetting a Dell laptop as well as other laptop models, the system will delete all data on the system drive and all installed software applications. The laptop will return to its original state and you need to reinstall Windows.

- The software you have installed on Windows before will also be completely deleted. If you do not prepare a backup, you will have to spend time reinstalling them from the beginning.

- All personal information, accounts saved on the computer as well as Windows accounts will also be deleted and logged out.

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Resetting your laptop will almost erase everything, so if you are not sure, prepare a backup plan for important data. Of course, instead of erasing all data, you can also choose to only erase data that is not from the original system, but this method will not be as effective as resetting everything.

How to reset Dell laptop?

Resetting a Dell laptop is similar to other laptop brands. You can reset it in Windows or reset it on the boot screen depending on the situation you encounter.

Reset laptop in Windows 10

If your laptop can still boot and access Windows, resetting will be extremely simple. On a Dell laptop or any other laptop running Windows operating system, you can perform the following operations:

Step 1: Left click on the Windows icon > select Settings > select Update & Security

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Step 2: In the Update & Security section, select Recovery . Right in the Reset this PC section, you will see the Get started button > select this button to reset the Dell laptop (other laptop lines ASUS, Acer, Lenovo. do the same)

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Step 3: After selecting Reset laptop, the system will give you 2 suggestions to help you choose.

+ Keep my files : Only delete installed applications, files remain intact

+ Remove everything : Remove everything and reset

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You choose 1 of these 2 reset options to suit your personal purpose. Immediately after choosing, the process will begin.

Reset laptop using Recovery Disk feature

Most laptop models sold in the Vietnamese market today are integrated with genuine Windows. Although that can make the price of the laptop increase a bit, integrating genuine Windows will bring many benefits to users. And if your laptop is integrated with genuine Windows, you can use the Recovery Disk feature to reset your laptop.

To be able to use the Recovery Disk feature, you need to enter Safe mode on your laptop. Because this article is instructing the operation on a Dell laptop, so to perform this operation, you press and hold the F8 key after restarting the laptop or the laptop is in the initialization process.

Once in Safe Mode interface , select Troubleshoot

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Select Reset this PC to reset the laptop.

Although there are many ways to reset Dell laptops, these are the two most popular and easiest ways for everyone, even those with little technical knowledge. If you need further technical support, please contact TipsMake for advice!