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please help - cannot access recovery partition after Win7 Install
Hi everyone,
I have a Vostro 1500 that came with WinXP
I tried Windows 7 for a while, and when I wanted to go back to WinXP I couldn't because the Win7 setup messed up with the original boot options and cannot access the recovery partition so the Ctrl-F11, or F8 or any other way to access the recovery option doesn't work.
Can somebody help me how to restore the computer to original factory state, I did not touch the other partitions when I was installing Win7, they are still there. And no I don't have the recovery disks.
Thanks in advance!
Philip_Yip
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August 25th, 2011 16:00
Think installing from discs has stopped the recovery partitions from working. You need the disc, contact Dell to get one or buy a Dell XP disc from ebay.
dallascowboyswo
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August 27th, 2011 22:00
You can request backups here.
support.dell.com/.../backupcd_form