XPS M1330 - Dell Recovery Partition

Hi Borneo,

Welcome to the Community.

Recovery Partition cannot be recovered, you can always perform re-installation of the windows using the disk sent with the system.

Refer to the link mentioned below for more information on installation of operating system:

http://dell.to/Wj9o0m

Thanks & Regards
Manshu S
#iworkfordell

Hi all,

I have accidentally deleted Dell Recovery Partition (DSR) from my laptop (located in D:) - I was wondering if anyone could guide me how can I restore or get them back? I don't mind to reformat or delete all my files if necessary.

Hope to hear from you.

Many thanks,

Borneo

You are posting on the Linux Forum as far as I know Dell didn't sell this model with Linux but only Windows XP and Vista. Thus the recovery partition will be for one of the Windows OS. Once an OS has manually been installed the recovery partition is useless and you need to manually install Windows.

As Windows XP is reaching End of Life and Windows 7 is superior to both XP and Vista you should consider installation of Windows 7.

To do this follow Windows Reinstallation Guide/A Clean Install of Windows 7:

http://philipyip.wordpress.com/dell-community-forums/

In addition use the following Unofficial Driver sets:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/w/microsoft_os/4534.xps-laptops-windows-7-unofficial-drivers.aspx

Hi borneoboi

Please refer to the link mentioned below that might help you restoring system back to factory settings:

http://dell.to/17ubnmG

Please let me know if further help is required.

Thanks & Regards
Prateek K
#iworkfordell 

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I have merged your 2 threads together on the same topic to the Microsoft OS Forum.