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    Help with Dell XPS m1530 Laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by kunal2sh, Sep 12, 2008.

  1. kunal2sh

    kunal2sh Notebook Consultant

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    I got my dell laptop some days back. The first thing i did was to delete the Dell Media Direct Partition and use it for data. And now the Ctrl+F11 function broke. Then i decided to reinstall it. I had 4 Partitions at this point
    1-EISA Configuration
    2-110MB Partition
    3-Vista Partition
    4-10.00GB "Recovery" Partition

    And then I booted from the media direct disk. It asked for reinstall. I accepted and after it asked OS Reinstall DVD. I Put that in and vista got reinstalled. After that i go to my computer and checked in disk management it showed only the following partitions:
    1-EISA Configuration
    2-3.00GB Media Direct Partition
    3-My Vista Partition

    My "recovery" partition got deleted. Though i have a backup of my recovery partition on my external hard drive.

    Now my question:
    Can anyone help me how to get the recovery partition back?? In sense that i have the files so how do i create the partition and make it boot using Ctrl+F11 to get the recovery process back?? PLs help me out. Thanks alot in advance.
     
    kunal2sh, Sep 12, 2008
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  2. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

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    hmm I think the recovery partition is hidden , but i may be wrong too in your case.
     
    vinumsv, Sep 12, 2008
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  3. kunal2sh

    kunal2sh Notebook Consultant

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    Well the partition is gone as in not hidden....i checked with ubuntu live cd also.
     
    kunal2sh, Sep 12, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Have you tried creating a new partition and copying over the backup you have?
     
    atbnet, Sep 12, 2008
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  5. KrieGLoCK

    KrieGLoCK Notebook Evangelist

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    once the recovery is gone, there is no way to make it unless you have those specific files saved somewhere and have the exact size it needs.
     
    KrieGLoCK, Sep 13, 2008
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