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Kamileon wrote:
I own an Inspiron 640m, built in August 2006. I currently am running Windows Vista RC1, and I want to revert back to Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). I figured I should just be able to launch the System Restore (via Norton Ghost, built into it's own dedicated partition on the hard drive, which I have not touched when installing Vista) and restore XP MCE that way.

Earlier in September, I was running Vista Beta 2 and was able to successfully revert back to Windows XP MCE using this method. Now I want to go back to XP MCE. The usual procedure is to press Ctrl + F11 when the Dell boot screen pops up. This key combination is not recognized. However the F2 (Enter Setup) and the F12 (Boot Options) DOES work.

Is there an alternate way to launch System Restore? Can I launch it through setup or the BIOS some how? I've tried searching through the boot options without any luck.

Thanks to all in advance,

KamX

 

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If the Symantec PC Restore utility won't work, but still resides on your computer, a Dell customer has figured out some ways to get it to work again. Note - If you removed this partition, it is not recoverable, cannot be downloaded from the internet, and cannot be shipped from Dell. Click here for ways to fix Symantec PC Restore. Users have also reported that the partition can be restored with Ghost 2003, and Ghost 9 using the '03 capabilities of it. If you boot to the Ghost 9 CD, select Advanced Recovery Taks, select Utilities, then Restore Legacy Image it should work - but you want to verify the image before attempting the restore. It's in a folder called IMG.