Dell PC Restore by Symantec

Question

No one at Dell seems to be able to answer a very basic question. I do not have the Dell PC Restore disk by Symantec. I know that it is on a hidden partion but, what if the hard drive fails, I now have no way on restoring the Windows XP etc. Is there a way to copy all information to CD's.

IrishJim68 · Answer

I am in the same boat, but my boat is sinking, as I have a corrupted boot sector, and file table on my hard drive with no restore CD to fix it. :smileymad:

dave51_2fe887 · Answer

IrishJim68, See if this link will help. http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/

Denny Denham · Answer

PC Restore is on the hard disk and is not available on CD. It is executed from the hard disk. See my answer to glay619's other post on this subject below in this conference.

RoHe · Answer

If the system is new, contact Dell and ask them to provide you with XP and Resource CDs, etc. for your system. The XP CD isn't a 'restore' disk, it's an XP installation disk. It won't put your system back the way it was shipped, the way Symantec PC Restore does, but it will allow you to repair XP on your HD or to reformat the HD and reinstall a fresh copy of XP.

Ron

Windows General

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