I have a secondhand W3653 I'd like to get to its original software setup.
I can get into Vista to try running the recovery center, but when it reboots the computer, Windows starts normally. I had a hard time finding the program, it was somewhere in a windows.old directory. I thought that may have had something to do with not running correctly, so I moved the contents of that directory to the root directory, and moved the newer versions of those directories to a directory I named windows.new. After rebooting and trying the factory restore option again, it lamentably had the same result, Windows booted normally instead of the factory restore happening.
I've tried tapping F8 to bring up Window's boot option screen, but no recovery option shows in there. I've tried other key combinations that are supposed to do something, but they don't do what I need.
I suppose it is possible the recovery partition is messed up somehow.
Please help if you can.