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Instead, take an image of the hard drive as it arrived from the factory &#8211; yes, you can always use the manufacturer&#8217;s instructions to return the machine to a restored state but this can take a long time (as I found a few weeks back when I succumbed to temptation and had a play with my Lenovo Idea Pad S10e before imaging it!).<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m setting up a new Dell notebook for someone (an Inspiron 1525) and the first key I pressed (after the power button) was F2 to go into the BIOS.  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