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December 4th, 2015 04:00

Dell Latitude 5540 Recovery

Hi All

I have a Dell Latitude E5540 I bought this second hand and the hard disc is formatted to a single drive and has no dell software as it would of been supplied when new, can anyone tell me if I can get the drive back to factory state as I would like to use all the dell features that this laptop has. I have no separate partition for recovery I have tried the F12 key and there is no Dell option to restore to factory state like I have said it is second hand and the shop I bought it from has a stupid policy to flatten the drive which in turn removes all recovery options.

any help and advice would be helpful.

thanks in advance

Blake001

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December 4th, 2015 21:00

Hi Blake001,

Follow this link for the recovery media forms.

http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/19/SLN298118/EN

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December 5th, 2015 05:00

Hi,

Thank you for writing to the Dell Community Forum.

First, I would recommend you to do a Ownership Transfer of the system from the previous owner to yourself using the following link:

http://dell.to/1QmedSo

You would need the Dell OEM media to format the hard drive. You would have to get in touch with the Dell Technical Support of your region to place a request for the disks. 

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December 5th, 2015 03:00

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