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    Booting to recovery partition on L502x

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by chemman14, May 23, 2011.

  1. chemman14

    chemman14 Notebook Consultant

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    I turned on my computer this morning and it kept hanging at the starting windows screen. From searches it seems like it could be a hardware issue. I would like to run diagnostics and cant seem to remember how to boot into the recovery partition on this laptop.
    Thanks in advance
     
    chemman14, May 23, 2011
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  2. joeaux

    joeaux Notebook Geek

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    F8 if all is the same as factory. If not you should have your boot DVD made from Dell Datasafe.
    -joe-
     
    joeaux, May 23, 2011
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Okay recovery partition will reimage your entire laptop. F8 and Repair my Computer and the most bottom option will get you access to the recovery partition.

    You can hit F12 and get the Diagnostics there or you can download it, or if you still have your Dell Diagnostics you can use those.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 23, 2011
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  4. chemman14

    chemman14 Notebook Consultant

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    Forgot it was an option in the boot menu. Ran diagnostics and the hard drive test failed.
     
    chemman14, May 23, 2011
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