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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Sorry, don't have a manual here for my daughter's Insp 1720. We are giving
it to a cousin and I want to put it back to the original configuration. Unfortunately google didn't help much. I tried F8 on bootup and there were a lot of options but none said Restore. I tried Repair but it did not wipe the HD. Anyone remember offhand how to do this? Mike p.s. I could just install Vista fresh and I just might, but I thought it would be convenient to try the Restore. |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Try the F12 key when the power on self tests are running. It used to
bring up a whole list of things the computer could boot to. If the recovery partition is valid, it should show up. William |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Marquis ] Posted At: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:51 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Subject: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Sorry, don't have a manual here for my daughter's Insp 1720. We are giving it to a cousin and I want to put it back to the original configuration. Unfortunately google didn't help much. I tried F8 on bootup and there were a lot of options but none said Restore. I tried Repair but it did not wipe the HD. Anyone remember offhand how to do this? Mike p.s. I could just install Vista fresh and I just might, but I thought it would be convenient to try the Restore. CTRL+F11 |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Thanks William. F12 brings up the boot-order menu. No Recovery partition on
it. Mike "William R. Walsh" wrote in message ... Try the F12 key when the power on self tests are running. It used to bring up a whole list of things the computer could boot to. If the recovery partition is valid, it should show up. William |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Thanks Tom. Do I do this during boot-up like the other F2/F12 choices?
Mike "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:000001c97039$2352b740$7301a8c0@SFF... -----Original Message----- From: Mike Marquis ] Posted At: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:51 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Subject: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Sorry, don't have a manual here for my daughter's Insp 1720. We are giving it to a cousin and I want to put it back to the original configuration. Unfortunately google didn't help much. I tried F8 on bootup and there were a lot of options but none said Restore. I tried Repair but it did not wipe the HD. Anyone remember offhand how to do this? Mike p.s. I could just install Vista fresh and I just might, but I thought it would be convenient to try the Restore. CTRL+F11 |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Well, yes, but that's for XP. Didn't realize it was Vista. SHOULD
still work. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Marquis ] Posted At: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:13 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Subject: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Thanks Tom. Do I do this during boot-up like the other F2/F12 choices? Mike "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:000001c97039$2352b740$7301a8c0@SFF... -----Original Message----- From: Mike Marquis ] Posted At: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:51 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Subject: How to exercise the Recovery Partition? Sorry, don't have a manual here for my daughter's Insp 1720. We are giving it to a cousin and I want to put it back to the original configuration. Unfortunately google didn't help much. I tried F8 on bootup and there were a lot of options but none said Restore. I tried Repair but it did not wipe the HD. Anyone remember offhand how to do this? Mike p.s. I could just install Vista fresh and I just might, but I thought it would be convenient to try the Restore. CTRL+F11 |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
"Tom Scales" wrote in message news:000101c97041$269b8000$7301a8c0@SFF... Well, yes, but that's for XP. Didn't realize it was Vista. SHOULD still work. For Vista he may have to do F8 instead, which will give him a WinVista GUI with repair/restore choices - or should. I think Vista killed the CTL+F11 hotkey combo that was used for XP. |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
"Mike Marquis" wrote in message ... Thanks William. F12 brings up the boot-order menu. No Recovery partition on it. Mike Try F8 again..... F12 - in my experience - has never listed the restore partition but the smaller 'utility partition'...... |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
Here are the directions for my XPS M1330 laptop:
Dell Factory Image Restore 1. Restart the computer. 2. As the computer restarts, press F8 until the Advanced Boot Options menu appears on the screen. 3. Press Down Arrow to select Repair Your Computer, then press Enter. 4. Specify the language settings you want, then click Next. 5. Log in as a user with Administrative credentials, then click OK 6. Click Dell Factory Image Restore. 7. In the Dell Factory Image Restore window click Next. 8. Select Yes, reformat hard drive and restore system software to Factory Condition checkbox. 9. Click Next. The computer is restored to the default facotry configuration. 10. When the restore operation is completed, click Finish to restart the computer. If you look hard enough, you should be able to find the .pdf of the Owner's Manual for your computer on the Dell website. It's in the Support section. *TimDaniels* "Mike Marquis" wrote in message ... Thanks William. F12 brings up the boot-order menu. No Recovery partition on it. Mike "William R. Walsh" wrote in message ... Try the F12 key when the power on self tests are running. It used to bring up a whole list of things the computer could boot to. If the recovery partition is valid, it should show up. William |
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How to exercise the Recovery Partition?
"S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:000101c97041$269b8000$7301a8c0@SFF... Well, yes, but that's for XP. Didn't realize it was Vista. SHOULD still work. For Vista he may have to do F8 instead, which will give him a WinVista GUI with repair/restore choices - or should. I think Vista killed the CTL+F11 hotkey combo that was used for XP. Should be still there, I did it for a friends Inspiron 530 Desktop recently and it has Vista installed. |
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