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3. Turn on the notebook by briefly pressing the power button.
If the Operating System Recovery CD does not open after
several minutes, the boot order settings on your notebook
might have been changed from the default settings. For
information about changing boot order settings, refer to the
Boot Menu in the“Configuring Your Notebook” section in
this chapter.
4. When prompted, press any key to boot from CD. (After a
few minutes, the Welcome to Setup screen is displayed.)
5. Press
enter to continue. (A Licensing Agreement screen is
displayed.)
6. Press
F8 to accept the agreement and continue. (The Setup
window is displayed.)
7. Press
esc to continue installing a fresh copy of the operating
system.
8. Press
enter to set up the operating system.
9. Press
C to continue setup using this partition.
10. Select Format the partition using the NTFS file system
(Quick), and then press
enter. (A caution is displayed. The
caution explains that formatting this drive will delete all
current files.)
11. Press
F
to format the drive. (The reinstallation process begins.)
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After you reinstall the operating system, you must reinstall the
drivers required for notebook functionality, You might need to
reinstall drivers for some external devices.
✎
After you have finished reinstalling drivers, you should reinstall
preloaded, preinstalled, and optional software.
After the reinstallation process is complete, which might take a
few hours, the notebook restarts in Windows.
To properly set up
Windows, follow the on-screen instructions.
