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February 18th, 2015 13:00

Messed up partitions now cannot use Dell Datasafe recovery when using f8 on boot

Hi all,

I've had a quick look around but cannot find anything on this one.

My XPS L502X had really slowed down so I backup all my stuff, did a full recovery and when I had installed a few of the basics I used Aomei backupper to do a backup of my c:.

I thought I was just doing a backup of the C: as I had unchecked the recovery partition. I thought it wise to check the backup and so did a restore. Unfortunately when I did this it created another recovery partition. Not a problem I thought, I'll just change the partitions. I've been doing this stuff for years and had every confidence, but that is where it all went wrong.

THE MAIN PROBLEM: After trying to correct everything, and correcting anything that followed I am now at the the stage where I can run windows fine and dandy but when I restart windows and use f8 to get to recovery options, instead of giving me a login challenge it asks me for a Windows recovery CD, which of course I do not have. The error is 0Xc0000225. I have seen some things about boot

All my fault of course, but I would like to fix it if I can. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to try and fix most of it. The drives are now as below.

To make windows boot I had to make the partition after the one named Recovery the Boot partition. There is some unallocated space that I cannot get rid of and C: is the last partition. Notice that the unallocated space and the system partition are Logical disks. Is this correct? The unallocated space is possibly the start of an extended partition for the logical partitions.

I'm not sure what this is meant to look like but I would appreciate any ideas or advice.


FURTHER INFO.

Using Visual BCD, my bootmgr looks liike this by the way

My Windows 7 loader
My Windows Recovery Environment

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers

Wayne

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February 18th, 2015 15:00

Dell DataSafe is obsolete. Try to update to the latest version of Dell Backup and Recovery to see if this fixes the problem:

http://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/article/Product-Support/Self-support-Knowledgebase/software-and-downloads/dell-backup-solutions/Dell-Backup-and-Recovery

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February 22nd, 2015 05:00

Hi,

Thank you NATAKUC4!

Installing backup and recovery did the trick as far being able to boot to recovery. Excellent suggestion!

Partitions are still messed up a bit, but it all works! :-)

cheers

wayne

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February 22nd, 2015 07:00

Great! I got a new system this week and got some hardware to capture within the BIOS. I've been working on some tutorial videos related to Dell Backup and Recovery.

I advise you make a Rescue Disk (Recovery External Hard Drive) or Factory Backup USB (USB Flash Drive) or both:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIKWN6sugY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_1zRDe-qTI&feature=youtu.be

If you restore using it, you should be able to revert all the partitions back to default. I demonstrate this on a new SSD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTxrnWsAfoA

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