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Cannot use Dell PC Restore
I recently reformatted my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop before I knew about PC Restore. But I did not like the effect it had on my PC. I only formatted the largest partition with my personal files, NOT the partition of Dell's PC Restore. Now I cannot use the PC Restore after numerous attempts at it. I followed the directions on the Dell website very carefully and nothing happened. I looked at the hard drive and the partition containing the PC Restore is still there. Is it still probably to use the PC Restore or is there an alternative way to use it?
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Posted February 13th, 2005 20:00
Thank you for your help. But is there any other way I can use the PC restore perhaps on a CD or extract the partition on to a CD?87
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Posted February 13th, 2005 22:00
ktot17,
No, I'm afraid there's not.
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Posted February 14th, 2005 04:00
Thank you for you assistance. I am deeply depressed for this news, considering my laptop is only three months and I messed it up already. However, I learned a valuable lesson from this. Hopefully you can assist me again someday before I make a mistake. Thanks again for all your help.87
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Posted March 16th, 2005 07:00
It's just *TOO STRANGE* that DELL doesn't provide a boot-writing utility to get the CTRL+F11 function back.... Heck, they even let us flash our own bios'es... Why cant to put a smal utility online that re-installs the PC RESTORE function (together with that hidden imagefile in that hidden partition). Soo many people would be helped with this....
COME ON DELL!!
Denny Denham
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Posted February 13th, 2005 14:00
Your reintallation modified the Master Boot Record. PC Restore cannot be used after that is done. If you reinstall again in the future you can reclaim the disk space used by the restore partition.