Resolving Software And Hardware Incompatibilities; Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® Xp; Before You Begin - Dell WHL Owner's Manual

3 Click Next.
The System Restore screen appears and the computer restarts.
4 After the computer restarts, click OK.
Enabling System Restore
If you reinstall Windows XP with less than 200 MB of free hard-disk space available, System
Restore is automatically disabled. To see if System Restore is enabled:
1 Click the Start button and click Control Panel.
2 Click Performance and Maintenance.
3 Click System.
4 Click the System Restore tab.
5 Ensure that Turn off System Restore is unchecked.

Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities

If a device is either not detected during the operating system setup or is detected but incorrectly
configured, you can use the Hardware Troubleshooter to resolve the incompatibility.
To resolve incompatibilities using the Hardware Troubleshooter:
1 Click the Start button and click Help and Support.
2 Type
hardware troubleshooter
3 Click Hardware Troubleshooter in the Search Results list.
4 In the Hardware Troubleshooter list, click I need to resolve a hardware conflict on my
computer, and click Next.
Reinstalling Microsoft
NOTICE:
NOTICE:
array, you must create a single drive RAID 0 array when installing the operating system. See "Creating an
Array using the Nvidia MediaShield ROM Utility" on page 23 for instructions.

Before You Begin

If you are considering reinstalling the Windows XP operating system to correct a problem with a
newly installed driver, first try using Windows XP Device Driver Rollback (see "Using Windows
XP Device Driver Rollback" on page 61). If Device Driver Rollback does not resolve the
problem, then use System Restore (see "Using Microsoft
page 62) to return your operating system to the operating state it was in before you installed the
new device driver.
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