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December 28th, 2013 08:00
Precision M4700 Restore problems
I have a Dell Precision M4700. I deleted the main windows partition when reinstalling Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from CD. Now I cannot access the recovery image to restore Windows. From what I've been reading, it is because I deleted the custom Dell MBR which would have allowed me to use the Ctrl + F11 command to start the recovery. The recovery partition still exists and is untouched. I tried to follow the instructions on (http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore), however I could not get DSRFIX to work. I have a suspicion it is because the recovery partition is an NTFS partition, not a FAT32 partition. So two questions:
1) Ideally I would be able to restore the laptop to Dell factory state. Is there any way I can add the custom Dell MBR back to the partition and use the Ctrl + F11 command?
2) If there is no fix for the above, is there a way I can access the image and is there a program I can use to restore it to the master partition.
thanks for the help!

