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March 18th, 2007 12:00

Vista upgrade gone wrong Help

Tried the vista upgrade way too many conflicts software,hanging on restart,ect. I then ran XP from the original cd when ask i ran it on C Partition.I know the hard drive had two hidden partion one pc restore accesed by ctrl- F11 keys at boot other diag partition .I did not run windows over those partions but i can no longer get to restore ctrl +F11 .I would like to return the computer back to the way it was at purchase.
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    fireberd

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    Posted March 18th, 2007 14:00

    You've posted in the wrong forum section, as your issue is not Audio.  If you check the Software/Vista section or possibly the Software/Windows XP you will find that installing the Vista corrupted or wiped out the restore partition and it's no longer available.  Dell does not provide downloads for those partitions so it would appear that they are gone.
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    Posted March 20th, 2007 13:00

    if you did not do a reparation of the hard drive, delete the 2 hidden partions, they are still there go to this page, read it. And use the repair tool he made it works awsome! 
     
     
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    Posted March 20th, 2007 13:00

    You may need to request copies of restore disks from Dell. I did that before I attempted the VISTA upgrade, While I got VISTA working, its so slow (Intel Duo 1.8 with one gig of Ram on an Inspiron E1405), that I regret doing the "upgrade" and when I have the time will take it back to XP. Just glad that I use the laptop as a test bed, and don't have to depend on it.

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