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July 5th, 2010 20:00
Create Diagnostic Partition PRecision T7400
Hell Dell Forums!
I've always offered advice here but this is my first time asking so go easy on me!
I've got a Dell Precision T7400 w/ Vista Business 32-bit I've just about got back working again fully. The only thing is I had to replace the HDD & am not sure how to create the Dell Diagnostic Partition. I can make the diagnostic disc from the .ISO, that's no problem.
So advice & guidance would be much appreciated!
Thank you all!
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e.pierce
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July 6th, 2010 11:00
As far as I know, Dell Tech support does NOT support creating a diagnostic partition. There may be some hacks documented on the internet, google might find some stuff that is pertinent, but it will be messy.
If you had created a disk clone when you first got the machine (or lat least just prior to drive trouble), you might have been able to restore that.
Really, in your situation (replacement hard drive) the easiest thing is to just create a bootable CD/USB with the Dell Hardware Diagnostics on it.
gregory.jones
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July 6th, 2010 15:00
Cool. Thanks Pierce!
Contax
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July 7th, 2010 20:00
Ghost v11.5 on Hiren's Boot CD made an image of the FAT partition on my Dell M90 &D830 HDD's onto a USB pen and it restored onto new HDD OK. At least I have an image saved now, might be a good practice for all users as it is only small file.
I booted from Hiren's Boot CD with the new bare HDD no partitions and with F12 on bootup the Dell Diagnostics were working so must be in Bios, I would love to know exactly what the FAT partition really does have on it and when needed, someone said it was for system restore but not much data on it so can't believe that.
I remember years ago I had to do an EISA partition on a Compaq server when a P75 bare box no HDD cost £6K so I know it can be done but can't remember how.