Inspiron 1525

Hi all got a ageing but still working Dell Inspiron 1525 need to factory reset it but after pressing f8 at start up, don't get the option to mend restore my pc, laptop came with know installation disk, but there is two small partitioned drives on the disk, could be a mirror not sure, downloaded G parted but not sure what to do with program, but told could help ....... need to flag up a partition ???? just made it not work at all, back working now not sure how to proceed

any help advise welcome cheers

Hi guys thanks for all the help here so far think I might not of explained my situation here entirely, the laptop I was trying to factory reset is not the one on my profile here, came with vista sp1 ..... managed to reinstall, now sp2, as far as I can tell its activated and all drivers are up to date, via slim drivers, connects to internet fine via wireless, devise manager says all ok, but it wont download windows uploads ????... just keeps checking for updates for hours ???? ... know it needs loads I think is it discontinued for vista now ?



also if I check history it says below even though says never above ?



thanks for any help

Ztruker said:

Try the Microsoft FixIt for Vista, see if that helps.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...?wa=wsignin1.0

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didn't help at first, but then win vista tried to download something but failed set to automatic download, so checked disk properties and to my horror a 142GB of 149 was used up with just win vista installed ? ..... but three versions of windows old too taking up 118GB

since saving anything I needed and deleting this files all seems to be working fine im downloading windows updates at the moment and all seems well