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, if you are unsure of where your hard drive is located. 4 Unscrew the hard drive from the drive bay if necessary. Gently remove t he hard drive from the laptop, and remove the power cable to disconnect the drive from the motherboard. Don't twist or yank on the connector, since you may damage the hard drive or the cable. 5 Carefully insert a USB 2.0 interface into the available port locat ed on the side of the hard drive. Connect one end of a USB cable to the interface and then the other end to a working laptop with desert background the Windows operating system installed. Windows should automatically detect the USB device. 6 Select to open the files in Windows Explorer when the autorun dialog box appears.File and Print Sharing For those with multiple computers all needing use of the same PurplePixie printer, it is recommended to put your printer and computers on a shared wireless network. This is simply done by connecting the p .
eless router. If using a Windows operating system, click Start, then move your mouse to Control Panel and click. Once in the c ontrol panel, proceed to double click on the Printers and Faxes icon. A window will pop up, click the Add Printer box and pres s Next. Click Choose a Network Printer and press Next. Then you'll need to browse for a printer, click and press Next. You now have the option to choose a printer. Choose the one you just connected to the wireless router or if you have multiple printe 3d diamond rs, choose the one you want to print to. Plug and Play USB Printers Many newer printersrouters are USB plug and play plug the c able in, and you're good to go. These are recommended as they're much more convenient.For those with only one computer and one pr PurplePixie inter, it is truly not necessary to have a wireless router for the printer. The printer can be connected directly to the computer .
d boot menu loads. 3 Scroll down to Repair Your Computer and press Enter to access the DataSafe local backup screen. Click Ne xt. Select Dell Factory Image Recovery and DataSafe options. 4 Click the Restore without preserving new or changed files radi o button and click Next. Click Next three more times and click Restart to restore the disk drive to its original condition. Follow the on-screen prompts to set your operating system settings. Recovery Disk 5 Insert the Dell recovery disk in your Inspiron oatmeal diet 's optical drive and close the AutoPlay window when it appears. Shut down any other open programs. Click Start and select Res tart. 6 Tap F2 as soon as the Dell image appears on the laptop's screen. Scroll to the CD-ROM option and press Enter. Tap a PurplePixie ny key when you see the Press any key to boot option. 7 Press Enter when the setup screen appears. Press F8 and highlight th .
