Formatted - Dell System Restore - Partition

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I had to reinstall windows xp using the cd that dell sent me (upon my own request mind you) and everything went fine. i had to do this because the dell system restore was corrupted and got to only about 40% when i was doing it and then it failed, resulting in my hard drive being corrupted, woohoo. anyways, i see there is still the recovery partition on my drive which is 1) of no use to me now considering it's completely bunk and 2) taking up a solid chunk of space.   My question is, is there anyway to repair this partition? If not, then is there anyway to free it up so it can be compiled together with my c: drive?   Also, when i now boot up my computer, it goes straight from the DELL screen to the WindowsXP screen. Before there was a screen in between that with a blue bar at the top and the screen would say 'PBR2...done.' Any ideas? I need help!!   Thanks in advance!

G2145 · Answer

what i just did was go to the hard drive manufacturer website (hitachi, in my case) and i downloaded the hard drive utility that will perform a low level format on the drive...my HD had a 92 gig extended dos partition that i could not delete through fdisk...the utility took care of that and i am now formatting the drive

i am kind of lost on the repair and re-install of media direct...i am not going to lose any sleep if i can't fix that when i get my cd's from dell

update...i just tried to restore a ghost image and i got an error about the hardware or hard drive configuration....i think i had to do a clean install of windows before when i had this problem

Message Edited by G2145 on 06-25-200609:26 PM

Message Edited by G2145 on 06-25-200610:11 PM

eeyore7412 · Answer

well this makes me think that maybe it wasnt my battery that died but the pc restore to factory settings that failed. i thought it was odd that i didnt receive a low battery alert.

mine didnt make it up 75%

subwoofer151 · Answer

go here and get the dsrfix.zip file, this will fix your ctrl +f11 function also fix the pbr boot sequence,  so far this app has fixed hundreads of computers of all dell models, so if you want your system restore function fixed then get this tool     http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm

eeyore7412 · Answer

thanks for the reply, however it sounds like it might be too complicated for me. im not a computer whiz. after reading so many situations, i wonder if dell makes functional computers or not.

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