Dell Datasafe restore

[tmmar]

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.

[tatest]

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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