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How to Restore the EeePC to its Factory Settings

If you have somehow messed up your EeePC but still have the factory OS loaded on it, you can restore it to the original, out-of-the-box settings in under 5 minutes.

First off, make sure you have all your important data backed up to an external drive or SD card and then reboot you EeePC. Please note that any additional software that was installed will also be erased.

When the EeePC reboots press the F9 key over and over under you get to a black screen that has an option to “Restore to Factory Settings”. Select that option and wait about a minute or so and the EeePC will reboot itself.

When the EeePC reboots it will ask you to enter a username and password just like it did when you took it out of the box, and then boot to the original “easy” desktop.

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6 Responses to “How to Restore the EeePC to its Factory Settings”

  1. Ches says:
    August 1, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Are there any ways to use the Verizon CDMA Data card with the Eeepc 4G Surf? I’m referring to the USB727 modem.

    If not, are there any data cards that work with the Eeepc?

    Ches

  2. admin says:
    August 4, 2008 at 8:11 am

    Ches, thanks for visiting the site.

    Unfortunately I do not know the answer to this question.

  3. abi says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Thanks VERY much. Saved me from spending a ton of money.

  4. margot says:
    September 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    the f9 thing doesn’t work. wat can i do?

  5. wcchin says:
    November 4, 2009 at 11:59 am

    after i updated the bios .i cannot now restore my eee pc using f9 what happen?

  6. scrybe says:
    February 4, 2010 at 2:30 am

    It seemed to me that I couldnt get the F9 to work either, as it was starting too fast for me to hit F9 in time. So I had to go into the BIOS (F2) and disable the BootBoost (or whatever its called). After that I was able to start the restore process with F9.

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