hi all! my apologies if this would not be the appropriate to post my concern (kindly redirect me if so) ... i'm certain the gurus here are familiar with how Dell restores it's system like it's newly shipped from the factory ... point being is would anyone by familiar how Dell does it ... Dell Machines have an OS image somewhere in the hdd ... and calling it by pressing <Ctrl> + <F11> upon boot executes Recovery (making use of Ghost) which only takes aound 8-10 minutes to complete the restoration ... can regular home users do this too? thanks!

here is a link...

dell system restore

you can update the image if you wanted to.

thanks p4ntb0y! i haven't read the document fully yet ... i wanted to know though if it would be possible for non-Dell home users to create such utility partitions (w/ image) that can be called too to restore from (& with appropriate combo keys too) ... thanks again!