A little info would help, such as, did you reformat the HD by chance...and post your system model...and the reason(s) you are attempting to restore the system.
Just on the off chance that something bad happens to the system, as systems do crash from time to time, I wanted to see how the restore would go since the system currently doesn't have anything on it that I would'nt mind losing on a system restore. So I tried Dells' CTRL-F11 restore function to restore the system to its original state. Well, lo an behold this doesn't work. The systems displays a 'cannot restore'. I had not installed any other software on the system when I tried this. No hotfixes of any kind. So now if something does happen to the box, I have no CD's as Dell doesn't supply the WinXP, Windows MCE, or any of the other Cd's that the box was originally created with.
The system I have is a Dell XPS400 Intel 820D 1 GIG, 160G HD. with a D drive partition that has the ghost images and associated files on it.
When you added that ghost partition, you didn't delete the small (39-ish mb) unlettered partition did you? That's where it restores from, and if you were messing with the hard drive you probably got rid of that.
You misunderestand, I didn't add any ghost partition to this box. I just noticed the drive in Windows Explorier and can see the info that there. This partition comes from Dell that way.
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mstavale
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Just on the off chance that something bad happens to the system, as systems do crash from time to time, I wanted to see how the restore would go since the system currently doesn't have anything on it that I would'nt mind losing on a system restore. So I tried Dells' CTRL-F11 restore function to restore the system to its original state. Well, lo an behold this doesn't work. The systems displays a 'cannot restore'. I had not installed any other software on the system when I tried this. No hotfixes of any kind. So now if something does happen to the box, I have no CD's as Dell doesn't supply the WinXP, Windows MCE, or any of the other Cd's that the box was originally created with.
The system I have is a Dell XPS400 Intel 820D 1 GIG, 160G HD. with a D drive partition that has the ghost images and associated files on it.
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