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tmmar
Explorer
May 19, 2013

Dell Datasafe restore

I was having several problems with my laptop and decided to restore the computer to its factory image. I started the Dell Datasafe restore and it has been running for over 90 minutes. Does anyone know how long a restore normally takes? It is a Dell Inspiron 1510 and is about 2.5 years old running Windows 7.
Thanks.

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  • tatest's avatar
    tatest
    Explorer II
    May 23, 2013
    Depends on the speed of your connection, but pulling an Windows OS image with all the drivers and factory supplied apps can easily take several hours.

    Starting from the Win 7 image on a "restore partition" it has taken me 4-6 hours over a 3G wireless connection just to pull the updates, but since it catches a Service Pack, that usually means almost a whole new Windows.

    With DataSafe, you are also dealing with whatever bandwidth is available to the DataSafe server. I have no experience with that one, but have worked with other external storage sites that I find much slower than the download servers for Windows updates.

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