Dell Recovery and partitions...

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filiplezny wrote:
I have bought my dell with 40gig HDD and one partition but would like to divede it on 2 partitions C and D. What will happen when I'll do that and will use later restore system to factory configuration (CTRL+F11)? Will I lose my D partition and laptop will have only one, C, partition again, or that restore will not delete D part, or after partitioning my hdd I will be unable to use CTRL+F11 tool?

How to divide one big disk into partitions not having any troubles with Dell Recovery CTRL+F11??

Best regards, Filip.

 

In the future, by using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question, posted many times.

 

You will disable CTRL F11 by repartitioning.  You can use CTRL F11 to combine D into C if in fact the computer came with a D partition for Norton Ghost trial.    You cannot divide the disk w/o disabling CTRL F11.

 

Systems shipped after July 15, 2004 came with Symantec PC Restore. This utility restores the computer to an "as-shipped" condition. If you haven't reformatted, repartitioned, or otherwise modified the master boot record, it should work. Click here for instructions about Symantec PC Restore.

If the Symantec PC Restore utility won't work, but still resides on your computer, a Dell customer has figured out some ways to get it to work again. Note - If you removed this partition, it is not recoverable, cannot be downloaded from the internet, and cannot be shipped from Dell. Click here for ways to fix Symantec PC Restore. Users have also reported that the partition can be restored with Ghost 2003, and Ghost 9 using the '03 capabilities of it. If you boot to the Ghost 9 CD, select Advanced Recovery Taks, select Utilities, then Restore Legacy Image it should work - but you want to verify the image before attempting the restore. It's in a folder called IMG.

Systems that shipped beginning in early 2005 ship without Windows XP. You can contact Dell and request a CD and wait for it to ship, see Contact Us at the bottom of the page.