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March 4th, 2009 19:00
help with recovery partition
I had to delete my recovery partition today my whole system was hosed (xps 630) I was able to back up the recovery partition before I formated the harddrive. After I reinstalled vista I made a new partition called recovery and made it 10gb like the old one and replace the files. When I accessed the recovery partition before I just pressed f8 when the pc booted up and a new window poped up saying (rapair pc). But I no longer get the option to repair the pc when I hit the f8 at boot up, is there any thing I can do to get my pc to see the recovery partition again?
Thanks for any help
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DELL-Chris M
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March 5th, 2009 07:00
xpsftw,
This might help.
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March 5th, 2009 12:00
is there any other way to restore the partition? i dont have access to dos and partitoin magic does not work on vista. is there a dvd i can order or program i can download to rebuild the partition?
Alexandra_P
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March 5th, 2009 13:00
Long thread here on how to recover the original F8 system recovery option - lots of info and options in there, so read the whole thing through.
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19243206.aspx?PageIndex=1
However, you may still be able to access and restore the partition manually booting into system recovery from the Vista DVD - might work as long as the partition's intact:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?docid=298A2E89689E13C2E040A68F5B280AA4&c=us&l=en&s=gen#2
Strictly FYI from me - I'm still on the low end of the learning curve on this stuff.