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    XPS 1647: Access use recovery partition after Win 7 install?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by stantheman1976, Apr 3, 2011.

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    stantheman1976 Newbie

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    I re-installed Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my wife's XPS 1647 last night with the installation disc that came with the laptop instead of using the Dell recovery like I should have.

    The recovery partition is intact and I can easily access it but I can't get Windows to see it as a way to restore the system. Is there any way to do this now?
     
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    Does anyone know if this can be done? I requested a set of recovery discs from Dell and they arrived today but it's the same discs that came with the system. There is a Win 7 install disc, driver & diagnostics disc and a couple other ones but they are not automated recovery discs. The laptop is 1 month out of warranty so Dell won't do anything without charging.

    I was able to get all the drivers working but the eject touch button for the DVD drive doesn't work.

    The WIM file on the recovery partition can be opened and extracted with 7-zip. That gives me an exact file structure of what the hard drive was out of the box. Can I do anything with that to bring the machine back to factory default?
     
    stantheman1976, Apr 5, 2011
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