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Recovering from an HDD failure
The hard drive on my wife's Inspiron 6000 died. A friend was able to recover most (all?) the data including the hidden "recovery" partition and write them to another drive. Once I install a new drive in the laptop, is there some way to get that hidden partition onto the new drive so that I can recover the system?
jackshack
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January 8th, 2009 14:00
The restore partition is, I think, a Ghost image file. Look at Dan Goodell's page to learn more: Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition. If it is, you would still need a copy of the Ghost program in order to restore it. I don't believe there is a way to make it work as it did on the original hard drive.
If you don't have the Windows reinstallation disk, you should try this form and ask for it: Dell Replacement Disks.