Dell Inspiron 640M recovery partition!

Hi!

I have this laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Basic. It came with a recovery partition and EISA configuration partition. The problem is that I can't seem to find a way to restore the original state of the system from the recovery partition. I remember on my previous laptop (Toshiba), there was a DVD that you only have to boot from and everything is done automatically and system is restored. But in Dell I don't know what to do. It also came with a DVD that is labeled (Reinstallation DVD - Windows Vista Home Basic 32bit), which is the same as any other copy of Vista. There's another DVD "Drivers and Utilities"....

Please tell me what I should do because I don't want to do everything from scratch (install Vista then drivers and utilities)

I just need to know how to benefit from this recovery partition it upsets me that I couldn't put it to a use till now. :cry

 

http://support.dell.com/support/top...4B36163D513D4557E040A68F5A2834A2&docid=316056

"When you restore the computer to the default factory configuration, all data on the C drive is deleted. Before performing this procedure, back up personal files. If you do not back up personal files, the data is lost. "

 

Thank you Cat_w_9_lives

I wouldn't have done it without you!

 

Your welcome, glad it worked