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Factory Image Restore Following OS Upgrade
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 that came with Microsoft Vista. I recently bought Windows 7 and performed the upgrade. Due to an issue I'm having, I'd like to know if I may still use the Dell factory image restore feature. Will this work given that the laptop is now running a different OS from the one which shipped with the system? If it does work, then I assume it will reinstall Vista...
Does anyone know if I can use the factory image restore feature, given the situation? Thanks.
Alexandra_P
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January 8th, 2010 11:00
Maybe you can get the original Vista factory image back, but not using the original F8 recovery menu - the Vista boot options were overwritten when you upgraded to Windows 7.
However, if the original Vista image and restore tools are still on the original D: recovery partition, you may be able to do it booting from the Vista disk directly to get to the recovery options.
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19289406.aspx
shredhead
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January 8th, 2010 12:00
My question is sort of related.. My laptop came with Vista on it and a D partition for recovery. Now that I have upgraded it to Windows 7 I am wondering what this second partition can be good for. Is there a way to make this into a windows 7 recovery partition or should I just delete it and make my C drive 2GB larger?
Alexandra_P
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January 8th, 2010 13:00
Shredhead - if you wanted to create a Windows 7 recovery image it would be better just to do it on an external drive instead of on the partition - then you could recover even if the hard drive failed.
But as for the best way to do that, it would be better to start your own thread - I'm not familiar enough with imaging or Windows 7 to give you a good answer.